UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Rockford/Loves Park, IL, USA

Strange colorful ball of light over Loves Park IL late at night

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-02
Where
Rockford/Loves Park, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1.5hrs
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rockford-loves-park-il-2008-0fe318
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

  • Rockford/Loves Park, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 167 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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