Lake Shelbyville, IL, USA
This is kind of crazy. But I'll write the details and you decide. 10:30 on august 20th. 2017. Lone point, lake shelbyville. Campsite 64
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-21
- Where
- Lake Shelbyville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
- unknown-over-lake-shelbyville-il-2017-98c8cb
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
- Lake Shelbyville, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 93 reports from Illinois.
Report
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