UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Champaign, IL, USA

Giant, orange half Circle in Sky near Champaign

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-11-15
Where
Champaign, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
40.116, -88.243 · exact
Slug
circle-over-champaign-il-2017-d75a88
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Champaign, IL has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 93 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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