CaseUnknown2020

Altamont, IL, USA

Small star like fleet of lights over night sky- No specific formation - not nose to tail, tail to nose. (("Starlink" satellites??))

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-03-05
Where
Altamont, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15
Geo
39.062, -88.748 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-altamont-il-2020-8afd87
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Altamont, IL.
  • This case is one of 169 Illinois reports filed in 2020.

Report

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