Dalzell, IL, USA
One bright, white, and massive craft moving faster than anything I have seen, moved soundless, over central Illinois. Two witnesses.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-15
- Where
- Dalzell, IL, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- Unknown
- Geo
- 41.358, -89.176 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-dalzell-il-2012-816ed7
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
- Dalzell, IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 270 reports came from Illinois in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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