UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

Plainfield, IL, USA

I was sitting in my backyard the night of July 4th watching fireworks. I saw a red light above my head at first I thought it was a dron

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-07-04
Where
Plainfield, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
41.627, -88.204 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-plainfield-il-2020-7d16fe
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Plainfield, IL reports filed in July 2020.

In context

  • Plainfield, IL shows up 34 times across the archive.
  • 169 reports came from Illinois in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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