CaseSphere2003
Batavia, IL, USA
4 object in daylight
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-11-09
- Where
- Batavia, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -88.313 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-batavia-il-2003-097239
In context
- Batavia, IL shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from Illinois in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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