Peoria, IL, USA
((HOAX??)) Long, big, bright White Cylinder over my place in daylight. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Low28/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2018-07-20
- Where
- Peoria, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.694, -89.589 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-peoria-il-2018-e7ca9d
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 40 reports logged in Peoria, IL.
- This case is one of 104 Illinois reports filed in 2018.
- 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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