UFOMYST
CaseLight2021

Palatine, IL, USA

Unknown erratic movement in a :30 second shutter photo.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-03-09
Where
Palatine, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
:30 seconds
Geo
42.110, -88.034 · exact
Slug
light-over-palatine-il-2021-8c236b
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 28 reports logged in Palatine, IL.
  • This case is one of 71 Illinois reports filed in 2021.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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