Montgomery, IL, USA
I was standing in front of my yard playing with my kids. In the distance I noticed a red light in the sky. It was still day time the li
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-07-01
- Where
- Montgomery, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 41.731, -88.346 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-montgomery-il-2018-6ec8f0
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
- Montgomery, IL has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 104 reports from Illinois.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.