UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Sycamore, IL, USA

Bright star like object moved erratically, turned bluish at times, and pulsed brighter at times.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-24
Where
Sycamore, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
over an hour
Geo
41.989, -88.687 · exact
Slug
light-over-sycamore-il-2009-c71b78
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

  • One of 10 documented reports from Sycamore, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2009.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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