Lombard, IL, Decalb
Two bright orange/red colored spider looking things in the sky just outside the Lombard fest around 1:00 am
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-05
- Where
- Lombard, IL, Decalb
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3min 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.880, -88.008 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-lombard-il-2013-e1321f
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 1 reports logged in Lombard, Decalb.
- This case is one of 1 Decalb reports filed in 2013.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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