UFOMYST
CaseOval2017

New Lenox, IL, USA

Light coming down from the sky to the earth at a moderate speed.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-23
Where
New Lenox, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
41.512, -87.966 · exact
Slug
oval-over-new-lenox-il-2017-3c088e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • New Lenox, IL shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 93 reports came from Illinois in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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