Carlinville, IL, USA
BRIGHT LIGHTS 10-15 IN NUMBERS FLYING IN A PERFECT STRAIGHT LINE. ((Starlink satellites?))
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-26
- Where
- Carlinville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.280, -89.882 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-carlinville-il-2020-6869cb
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
- Carlinville, IL has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 169 reports from Illinois.
- The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.