Gurnee, IL, USA
Two spherical bright orange objects flew slowly across the sky, slowed down and kept going in a straight line and then disappeared.
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 (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-19
- Where
- Gurnee, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.370, -87.902 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-gurnee-il-2009-2ad8f4
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 14 reports logged in Gurnee, IL.
- This case is one of 140 Illinois reports filed in 2009.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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