UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Mattoon, IL, USA

Me and my brother were leaving thanksgiving dinner, I was in my car and my brother stared pointing up, I got out and saw a very bright

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-11-22
Where
Mattoon, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
39.483, -88.373 · exact
Slug
circle-over-mattoon-il-2018-9197e9
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

  • Mattoon, IL has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 104 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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