UFOMYST
CaseSphere2005

Highland Park, IL, USA

A red hazy object, faster than a plane and slower than a satellite, headed from the NE to the SW.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-14
Where
Highland Park, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.182, -87.800 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-highland-park-il-2005-fee68c
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

  • Highland Park, IL shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 209 reports came from Illinois in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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