UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Park Ridge, IL, USA

((HOAX??)) It looked like lightening in a huge circular sphere.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 1320s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-07-05
Where
Park Ridge, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
22 minutes
Geo
42.011, -87.841 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-park-ridge-il-2008-e66766
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 12 reports logged in Park Ridge, IL.
  • This case is one of 167 Illinois reports filed in 2008.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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