UFOMYST
CaseOther2013

Shorewood, IL, USA

An orange glowing object, overhead, initially thought to be spent fireworks casing. However, it continued to glow consistently. It's di

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-01
Where
Shorewood, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
41.520, -88.202 · exact
Slug
other-over-shorewood-il-2013-99f47a
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…

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In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Shorewood, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 173 sightings in 2013.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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