UFOMYST
CaseEgg2008

Downers Grove, IL, USA

In the morning I looked outside my window to see a white mailbox shaped object with thin black lines and thick red lines floating above

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-06-16
Where
Downers Grove, IL, USA
Shape
Egg
Duration
2 minute
Geo
41.809, -88.011 · exact
Slug
egg-over-downers-grove-il-2008-fa2196
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 22 reports logged in Downers Grove, IL.
  • This case is one of 167 Illinois reports filed in 2008.
  • Egg craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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