UFOMYST
CaseCircle2005

Lockport, IL, USA

Multicolored large, bright object in Southeast sky over Lockport, IL. ((NUFORC Note: Probably the star, Sirius, we suspect. PD)

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-19
Where
Lockport, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
hours
Geo
41.589, -88.058 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lockport-il-2005-f8a919
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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In context

  • Lockport, IL has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 209 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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