CaseOther2012

Lake in the Hills, IL, USA

We where siting outside all 5 of us and from a distance I saw three lights but they where not flashing like planes do.I thought it's to

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-09
Where
Lake in the Hills, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
42.182, -88.330 · exact
Slug
other-over-lake-in-the-hills-il-2012-4e1521
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

  • Lake in the Hills, IL has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 270 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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