UFOMYST
CaseOther2005

Rockford, IL, USA

not sure if it was a millitary aircraft but the craft went across the sky in about 3 min I would say the craft was at least 30,000ft i

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-21
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 min
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
other-over-rockford-il-2005-2ff0b4
Wave

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  • 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

  • Rockford, IL has 133 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 209 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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