Richton Park, IL, USA
Extremely bright, white lights, pulsating, hovering and did not appear to be moving, then vanished into thin air.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-03-15
- Where
- Richton Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1.03
- Geo
- 41.484, -87.703 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-richton-park-il-2019-9d9310
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 2 reports logged in Richton Park, IL.
- This case is one of 166 Illinois reports filed in 2019.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.