River Grove, IL, USA
On a clear night an Orange ball of light moving silently across the sky until it disappeared
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-13
- Where
- River Grove, IL, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 41.926, -87.836 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-river-grove-il-2015-1306cf
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 River Grove, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 182 sightings in 2015.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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