Arlington Heights, IL, USA
Extra Star (What it looked like.) on the handle portion of the Big Dipper - Stationary then moved in a northerly direction.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-20
- Where
- Arlington Heights, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 35-45 seconds
- Geo
- 42.088, -87.981 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-arlington-heights-il-2010-b3a3d9
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…
Local cluster
Arlington Heights, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2010.
In context
- One of 23 documented reports from Arlington Heights, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 208 sightings in 2010.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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