Oaklawn - Hickory Hills, IL, USA
I was driving on I294 near OakLawn when I saw a strange light in the sky that strobed white with red and green every few seconds.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-02
- Where
- Oaklawn - Hickory Hills, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- about 5 to 10 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-oaklawn-hickory-hills-il-2005-a79338
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Oaklawn - Hickory Hills, IL.
- This case is one of 209 Illinois reports filed in 2005.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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