Oak Lawn, IL, USA
Large white bright light moving left to right and looked like it was coming down as if it was going to land. Then stood still in the s
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-30
- Where
- Oak Lawn, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.711, -87.758 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-oak-lawn-il-2015-f16589
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
- Oak Lawn, IL has 51 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 182 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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