UFOMYST
CaseChanging2013

Rockford, IL, USA

Bright red, white, and orange lights hovering in the western sky.

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: 1350s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-10-15
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
20-25 minutes
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
changing-over-rockford-il-2013-83046a
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.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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