CaseFormation2013

Zion, IL, USA

6 to 8 lights in formation in eastern sky heading west.

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-03-03
Where
Zion, IL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2-5 minutes
Geo
42.446, -87.833 · exact
Slug
formation-over-zion-il-2013-962aad
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Zion, IL has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 173 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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