CaseLight2010

Oak Lawn, IL, USA

zoomed camera on light and filmed did not look light a plane no sound no blinking lights

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-17
Where
Oak Lawn, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
41.711, -87.758 · exact
Slug
light-over-oak-lawn-il-2010-bf1ea5
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Oak Lawn, IL in August 2010 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Oak Lawn, IL has 51 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 208 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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