UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

Orland Park, IL, USA

Big Huge Bright Light Seen Over By My Cousin's House In Orland Park

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-18
Where
Orland Park, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 Min.
Geo
41.630, -87.854 · exact
Slug
light-over-orland-park-il-2005-155e4c
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…

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In context

  • Orland Park, IL shows up 45 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%.

Report

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