UFOMYST
CaseLight2011

Rockford, IL, USA

Small, fast, bright, silent UFO streaks across Rockford sky at super speed, disappears into cloud

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-09-08
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3-5 Seconds
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
light-over-rockford-il-2011-812d7d
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Rockford, IL reports filed in September 2011.

In context

  • Rockford, IL shows up 133 times across the archive.
  • 219 reports came from Illinois in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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