Ottawa, IL, USA
It was just after nightfall Saturday, July 3 about 22:00. I was walking toward a pile of wood, to light the bonfire. I was walking nort
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-03
- Where
- Ottawa, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds to a minute
- Geo
- 41.346, -88.843 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ottawa-il-2010-fa12c4
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
- Ottawa, IL has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 208 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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