Aledo, IL, USA
White disk, night, neighborhood, hovering. 4 minutes
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-04
- Where
- Aledo, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 41.200, -90.749 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-aledo-il-2020-f7c2c1
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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
- Aledo, IL shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 169 reports came from Illinois in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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