UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

St. Charles, IL, USA

We all looked north and saw an orange light or spherical object slowly moving across the sky and as it slowed down the light faded and

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-20
Where
St. Charles, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.914, -88.309 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-st-charles-il-2012-92d38c
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 23 reports logged in St. Charles, IL.
  • This case is one of 270 Illinois reports filed in 2012.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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