Peotone, IL, USA
Fast, flickering, ball of red and white lights seen in the northern sky traveling I57 near Peotone, Illinois
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-11-13
- Where
- Peotone, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.332, -87.785 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-peotone-il-2004-bdba43
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
- Peotone, IL has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 220 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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