UFOMYST
CaseLight2020

Shawnee National Forest, IL, USA

Myself and 2 others were camping in Shawnee Forest at the top of a bluff about 300 ft tall. It was night. My friend said come lool at

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-01
Where
Shawnee National Forest, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10
Geo
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Slug
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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

  • Shawnee National Forest, IL shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 169 reports came from Illinois in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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