Burr Ridge, IL, USA
White Light Streaked Across Sky, Greyish Shape Appeared With It Just Above Tree Level
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-20
- Where
- Burr Ridge, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.749, -87.918 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-burr-ridge-il-2008-6df861
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Burr Ridge, 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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