CaseLight1985
Kirkland, IL, USA
one large light moved slowly across the sky at a very high altitude. four smaller lights seemed to come from within the large light as
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1985-08-10
- Where
- Kirkland, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2to3 hours
- Geo
- 42.093, -88.851 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-kirkland-il-1985-15ea1f
In context
- Kirkland, IL has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1985 brought 4 reports from Illinois.
- The 1980s skewed 11% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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