CaseFireball2012
Bartlett, IL, USA
4 to 10 orange lights hovering in the sky, then fade away to nothing
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 510s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-11
- Where
- Bartlett, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 to 10 min.
- Geo
- 41.995, -88.186 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bartlett-il-2012-9a9992
Wave
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
- Bartlett, IL shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 270 reports came from Illinois in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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