Greenville, IL, USA
((HOAX??)) Craft moved across the Southwest night sky in southern Illinois. ((NUFORC Note: We question the measurements. PD))
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2020-07-04
- Where
- Greenville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 35
- Geo
- 38.892, -89.413 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-greenville-il-2020-623630
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
- Greenville, IL has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 169 reports from Illinois.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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