UFOMYST
CaseLight2015

Niles, IL, USA

Very bright 1 foot in diameter ball of artificial light traveling at high speed over Niles, Illinois.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-08-07
Where
Niles, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
42.019, -87.803 · exact
Slug
light-over-niles-il-2015-23f002
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 10 documented reports from Niles, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 182 sightings in 2015.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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