Lockport, IL, USA
5 red/orange ovals traveling SW to NE in a straight line , spaced equally apart.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-18
- Where
- Lockport, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.589, -88.058 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-lockport-il-2012-39c598
Part of a wave
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
- Lockport, IL has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 270 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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