Oak Forest, IL, USA
That night after closing my garage door I glanced as I normally do towards the North Star..to my amazement just west of the North star
Report quality: High83/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 14 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-01
- Where
- Oak Forest, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- Five to Ten Minutes
- Geo
- 41.603, -87.744 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-oak-forest-il-2005-072f69
Part of a wave
IL flap 2005-09
IL, USA
67 sightings in geohash dp3s (IL) during 2005 peak months 9–10; top shape light
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 9 Oak Forest, IL reports filed in October 2005.
IL flap 2005-09
This report belongs to the IL flap 2005-09 — 67 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Oak Forest, IL shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 209 reports came from Illinois in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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