Hawthorn Woods, IL, USA
While taking Picture of the trees and sun, the bright item showed up far between the trees, however it moved up higher and observed nex
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
- 2018-02-08
- Where
- Hawthorn Woods, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 42.217, -88.050 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-hawthorn-woods-il-2018-bd23dc
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Hawthorn Woods, IL.
- This case is one of 104 Illinois reports filed in 2018.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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