UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

McHenry, IL, USA

Multiple bright fireball orbs hovering over mchenry,il meijers.vanishing as jet approached them

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-30
Where
McHenry, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.333, -88.267 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-mchenry-il-2012-5aaf23
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

  • One of 16 documented reports from McHenry, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 270 sightings in 2012.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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