North Aurora, IL, USA
Bright white light, jets out from high in the sky. (looked like a spotlight)
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-27
- Where
- North Aurora, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.806, -88.327 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-north-aurora-il-2008-8cdd6f
Part of a wave
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
- North Aurora, IL has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 167 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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