UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Wheaton, IL, USA

Light shot out of tree line at constant level across the sky from east to west at extreme high rate of speed. No tail, did not radiate

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-23
Where
Wheaton, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
8-10 seconds
Geo
41.866, -88.107 · exact
Slug
light-over-wheaton-il-2008-5278f4
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

  • Wheaton, IL has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 167 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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