Glen Ellyn, IL, USA
Bright sparkling egg shaped ufo in Glen ellyn, IL exploding with colors
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-03
- Where
- Glen Ellyn, IL, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 1 hour.. and counting
- Geo
- 41.878, -88.067 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-glen-ellyn-il-2009-b47424
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
- Glen Ellyn, IL has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 1.1% egg reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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