CaseLight2004

Tinley Park, IL, USA

3 reddish orange lights seen hovering over suburban chicago by hundreds, if not thousands.

Report quality: High79/100

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 (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 30 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-08-21
Where
Tinley Park, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Geo
41.573, -87.784 · exact
Slug
light-over-tinley-park-il-2004-c53de1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2004

    IL flap 2004-08

    IL, USA

    41 sightings in geohash dp3s (IL) during 2004 peak months 8–8; top shape light

Local cluster

Local cluster

32 reports came out of Tinley Park, IL in August 2004 alone — a local cluster.

Flap

IL flap 2004-08

Logged as part of the IL flap 2004-08, a 41-report space-time cluster.

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In context

  • Tinley Park, IL has 159 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 days

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