CaseFormation2015
Vernon Hills, IL, USA
pinpoint lights in V formation seen in the night sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-03-27
- Where
- Vernon Hills, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 42.219, -87.980 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-vernon-hills-il-2015-c8dd20
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Vernon Hills, IL has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 182 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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