Lombard, IL, USA
saucer shaped object in the sky glows white and fades three times in sky
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-12-31
- Where
- Lombard, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.880, -88.008 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-lombard-il-2004-80b962
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 25 reports logged in Lombard, IL.
- This case is one of 220 Illinois reports filed in 2004.
- Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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