Calhoun, IL, USA
There was three people that saw this and there was two planes went by it and then disappeared right before our eyes. The light was brig
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-05-20
- Where
- Calhoun, IL, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- Every half hour
- Geo
- 38.650, -88.044 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-calhoun-il-2018-fd9923
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Calhoun, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 104 sightings in 2018.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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