CaseCircle2004

Ashley, IL, USA

2 balls of light one large one small changing colors and there for hours. ((NUFORC Note: Venus and Jupiter. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-11-05
Where
Ashley, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2-3 hours
Geo
38.329, -89.191 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ashley-il-2004-b89ea9
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

  • One of 2 documented reports from Ashley, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 220 sightings in 2004.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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