Glenarm, IL, USA
Shape changing star explodes into a beautiful rainbow, and returns to original shape
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-15
- Where
- Glenarm, IL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- several hours
- Geo
- 39.624, -89.649 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-glenarm-il-2011-400c5a
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…
Local cluster
Glenarm, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2011.
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Glenarm, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 219 sightings in 2011.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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