UFOMYST
CaseLight2015

Bloomington, IL, USA

Starlike object in western sky seen by many on multiple occasions. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-03-16
Where
Bloomington, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 hours
Geo
40.484, -88.994 · exact
Slug
light-over-bloomington-il-2015-2e5893
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Bloomington, IL shows up 36 times across the archive.
  • 182 reports came from Illinois in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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