UFOMYST
CaseLight2018

Hampshire, IL, USA

2 glowing football field sized cigar shaped craft seen during sunset moving away from each other.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-05
Where
Hampshire, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.098, -88.530 · exact
Slug
light-over-hampshire-il-2018-ec8f4a
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…

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In context

  • Hampshire, IL shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 104 reports came from Illinois in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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