UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2016

Ottawa, IL, USA

Cylinder shaped object over northern Illinois.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-13
Where
Ottawa, IL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
41.346, -88.843 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-ottawa-il-2016-e0e0ad
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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In context

  • This is one of 16 reports logged in Ottawa, IL.
  • This case is one of 156 Illinois reports filed in 2016.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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