CaseCircle2021

Elgin, IL, USA

2 stationary orange orbs, different heights, suddenly vanished

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-11-16
Where
Elgin, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
42.037, -88.281 · exact
Slug
circle-over-elgin-il-2021-61701a
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

  • Elgin, IL has 26 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 71 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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