Woodstock, IL, USA
My husband and I saw a round, orange object travel in a straight southerly direction then it got smaller and disappeared.
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-31
- Where
- Woodstock, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.315, -88.449 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-woodstock-il-2015-fb7492
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
- Woodstock, IL has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 182 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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