UFOMYST
CaseCigar2005

Tinley Park, IL, USA

Traveling south on Oak Park ave, about 172nd st, My son saw something in the sky, silver and Black, clear blue sky. He told me to look

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-09
Where
Tinley Park, IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1 minute
Geo
41.573, -87.784 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-tinley-park-il-2005-f315e9
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…

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In context

  • Tinley Park, IL has 159 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 209 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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