CaseTeardrop2002
Elk Grove Village, IL, USA
Orange tear drop craft flying in the west.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-29
- Where
- Elk Grove Village, IL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- several minutes
- Geo
- 42.004, -87.970 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-elk-grove-village-il-2002-134e8b
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Elk Grove Village, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 98 sightings in 2002.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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