Franklin Park, IL, USA
A yellowish-orange glowing shape rotating counter clockwise on what appeared to be an assymetrical axis.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-22
- Where
- Franklin Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 41.935, -87.866 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-franklin-park-il-2005-e0f1ae
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
- Franklin Park, IL has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 209 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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