CaseLight2020

Westmont, IL, USA

Line of star-like lights all moving slowly across the night sky until they abruptly disappeared. ((Starlink satellites?))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-26
Where
Westmont, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-4 minutes
Geo
41.796, -87.976 · exact
Slug
light-over-westmont-il-2020-18e26b
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…

In context

  • Westmont, IL has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 169 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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