CaseOval2020

La Grange, IL, USA

I was looking for the moon I saw the moon but to my right I saw this object with pulsing lights but wasn't moving. Then I turned my hea

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-10
Where
La Grange, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
40 minutes
Geo
41.805, -87.869 · exact
Slug
oval-over-la-grange-il-2020-030096
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

  • La Grange, IL shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 169 reports came from Illinois in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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