UFOMYST
CaseSphere2019

East Alton, IL, USA

My son and I were riding our bikes through our neighbor when he called out my name and drew my attention to an object in the sky. We th

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-06-19
Where
East Alton, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
00:30
Geo
38.880, -90.111 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-east-alton-il-2019-bffedc
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

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in East Alton, IL.
  • This case is one of 166 Illinois reports filed in 2019.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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