CaseChevron2015

Rockford, IL, USA

Large extremely slow moving craft with red and white lights makes several low altitude passes over Rockford.

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-04-02
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
20-30 minutes
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-rockford-il-2015-f577da
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 133 reports logged in Rockford, IL.
  • This case is one of 182 Illinois reports filed in 2015.
  • Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.

Report

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