Shelbyville, IL, USA
my daughters and son were waiting on church bus. My daughter suddenly points to object cylinderical,very long shiny. For a moment it
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 (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-08-29
- Where
- Shelbyville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 sec.
- Geo
- 39.406, -88.790 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-shelbyville-il-2007-9545b3
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
- Shelbyville, IL has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 181 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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