UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

Melrose Park, IL, USA

I awoke at 4:22 AM, to let my dog out. As I opened my door to let the dog out, I noticed what, at first, I thought was an airplane in

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-04-06
Where
Melrose Park, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.901, -87.857 · exact
Slug
light-over-melrose-park-il-2012-99b3ea
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Melrose Park, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 270 sightings in 2012.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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