O'Fallon, IL, USA
We were driving north up Scott-Troy Road when we noticed that a bright object in the sky was slowly hovering to the east (towards Scott
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-02-17
- Where
- O'Fallon, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.592, -89.911 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-o-fallon-il-2006-c8724b
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
- O'Fallon, IL has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 144 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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