UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Naperville, IL, USA

I was retiring for the nite and got into bed in my darkened bedroom and as I turned my head toward the two windows to my left that I co

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-01
Where
Naperville, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 minutes ?
Geo
41.786, -88.147 · exact
Slug
oval-over-naperville-il-1997-788cfa
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 40 documented reports from Naperville, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 55 sightings in 1997.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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