CaseLight2015

Galena, IL, USA

A very bright orange reddish stationary light in the eastern slightly southern sky about 30 degrees above horizon.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-04-15
Where
Galena, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
42.417, -90.429 · exact
Slug
light-over-galena-il-2015-324caa
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

  • Galena, IL has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 182 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% 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.