UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Joliet, IL, USA

Two orange lights seen over Joliet, Illinois

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-09
Where
Joliet, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
41.525, -88.083 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-joliet-il-2012-331813
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

  • Joliet, IL shows up 33 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%.

Report

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