UFOMYST
CaseCircle2010

Arlington Heights, IL, USA

Orange glow shapes fly by right before and during a fireworks show from one end of the horizon to the next.

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 (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-04
Where
Arlington Heights, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.088, -87.981 · exact
Slug
circle-over-arlington-heights-il-2010-c96ac7
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Arlington Heights, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2010.

In context

  • One of 23 documented reports from Arlington Heights, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 208 sightings in 2010.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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