CaseFormation2002
South Elgin, IL, USA
White-silverish round objects that started out perfect V formation, split up, circling and doing other shapes till disappeared.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-04-09
- Where
- South Elgin, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.994, -88.292 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-south-elgin-il-2002-4c8a85
In context
- This is one of 14 reports logged in South Elgin, IL.
- This case is one of 98 Illinois reports filed in 2002.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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