CaseLight2008

Bloomington, IL, USA

light crossed above interstate near bloomington, hung in air for a minute, then went behind us and suddenly shot up and dissapeared

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-20
Where
Bloomington, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.484, -88.994 · exact
Slug
light-over-bloomington-il-2008-31692d
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

  • This is one of 36 reports logged in Bloomington, IL.
  • This case is one of 167 Illinois reports filed in 2008.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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