UFOMYST
CaseLight2010

South Elgin, IL, USA

A round shaped light with no movement. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Jupiter, or another celestial body?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate50/100

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
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2010-07-29
Where
South Elgin, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
it has been 10 minutes an
Geo
41.994, -88.292 · exact
Slug
light-over-south-elgin-il-2010-6017d0
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

  • South Elgin, IL has 14 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 208 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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