Villa Park, IL, USA
Cloud level greenish white shooting star like something just baffled me.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-25
- Where
- Villa Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.890, -87.989 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-villa-park-il-2014-ba9cd6
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
- Villa Park, IL has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 173 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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