CaseUnknown2008

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
Slug
unknown-over-quad-cities-near-over-i-88-il-2008-2ac2bf
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

  • Quad cities (near; over I-88), IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 167 reports from Illinois.

Report

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