Joliet, IL, USA
cigar shape light glowing blue with white lights on right side and left side white with lights
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-04
- Where
- Joliet, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- ~10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.525, -88.083 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-joliet-il-2016-68586a
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
- Joliet, IL shows up 33 times across the archive.
- 156 reports came from Illinois in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
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.