UFOMYST
CaseOther2009

Barrington Hills, IL, USA

Nearly vertical series of lights (12 or 14 bluish with fucshia at the top) over Barrington Hills lasting for four seconds.

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-07-13
Where
Barrington Hills, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
42.145, -88.156 · exact
Slug
other-over-barrington-hills-il-2009-970bd3
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

  • Barrington Hills, IL has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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