UFOMYST
CaseSphere2011

Clinton, IL, USA

Bright red/orange sphere observed for 3 minutes central Illinois, no other aircraft in vicinity.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-16
Where
Clinton, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.154, -88.965 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-clinton-il-2011-5cc9c5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Clinton, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 219 sightings in 2011.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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