UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Park Ridge, IL, USA

((HOAX??)) It was a very large and extremely bright white orb moving slowly in a SW direction slightly southeast of O'Hare Airport.

Report quality: Low25/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-06-06
Where
Park Ridge, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
42.011, -87.841 · exact
Slug
circle-over-park-ridge-il-2008-4e5028
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Park Ridge, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of June 2008.

In context

  • One of 12 documented reports from Park Ridge, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 167 sightings in 2008.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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