UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2007

Deerfield, IL, USA

teardrop shaped craft passed by a plane hovered for about 10 minutes then flew away extremly fast. the object was white. the pointed pa

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-07-17
Where
Deerfield, IL, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.171, -87.845 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-deerfield-il-2007-9e6194
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

  • Deerfield, IL has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 181 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

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