UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2013

Rockford, IL, USA

Dark red light over Rock River in Rockford, Il before fireworks...

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-04
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-rockford-il-2013-1a1d43
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 133 documented reports from Rockford, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 173 sightings in 2013.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

Report

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