UFOMYST
CaseOther2016

Middletown, IL, USA

At 10:15 last my family decides to go star gazing. We were looking for constellations when we noticed two bright yellow/

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-06-03
Where
Middletown, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2.5 hours
Geo
40.100, -89.591 · exact
Slug
other-over-middletown-il-2016-bc7ff5
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Middletown, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 156 sightings in 2016.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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