Quad cities (near; over I-88), IL, USA
The Craft had several brigth colored ligths, appear to be large, disappeared when it flew straight up, it's lights faded off
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-15
- Where
- Quad cities (near; over I-88), IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
- unknown-over-quad-cities-near-over-i-88-il-2008-2ac2bf
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
- Quad cities (near; over I-88), IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 167 reports from Illinois.
Report
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