Rockford/ Cherry Valley, IL, USA
I was on my way home from work. I saw two bright lights in the sky. I brushed it off at first thinking it was just two planes.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-06-04
- Where
- Rockford/ Cherry Valley, IL, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 30
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-rockford-cherry-valley-il-2018-6405c4
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 1 reports logged in Rockford/ Cherry Valley, IL.
- This case is one of 104 Illinois reports filed in 2018.
- Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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