CaseCylinder2010
Kildeer, IL, USA
Slow and silent
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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
- Brief witness text (15 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-10-30
- Where
- Kildeer, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20 ssecs
- Geo
- 42.171, -88.048 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-kildeer-il-2010-000294
Wave
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Kildeer, IL.
- This case is one of 208 Illinois reports filed in 2010.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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