Lake Villa, IL, USA
Dome-shape aircraft at very low altitude, transparent, blueish color, & had what appeared to be a flickering flame of fire inside
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 (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-04-14
- Where
- Lake Villa, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.417, -88.074 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lake-villa-il-2012-f996cc
Part of a wave
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
- Lake Villa, IL has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 270 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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