CaseLight2011

Mokena, IL, USA

Steady Red/Orange light very bright until it went into cloud cover and faded from view

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-09
Where
Mokena, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 sec
Geo
41.526, -87.889 · exact
Slug
light-over-mokena-il-2011-d8ffb2
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

  • Mokena, IL shows up 23 times across the archive.
  • 219 reports came from Illinois in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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