UFOMYST
CaseSphere2016

South Elgin, IL, USA

My family witnessed about 20 or more orange lights in the sky.... not too high up. They looked like they were hovering bot not moving

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-04
Where
South Elgin, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
41.994, -88.292 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-south-elgin-il-2016-02e99b
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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In context

  • This is one of 14 reports logged in South Elgin, IL.
  • This case is one of 156 Illinois reports filed in 2016.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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