UFOMYST
CaseOther2006

Plainfield (near Shorewood), IL, USA

2 low flying lights traveling east near Caton Farm Road and Red Hawk Drive, visible for 10 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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-07-18
Where
Plainfield (near Shorewood), IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
41.627, -88.204 · exact
Slug
other-over-plainfield-near-shorewood-il-2006-6fd95c
Wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Plainfield (near Shorewood), IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 144 sightings in 2006.
  • Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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