CaseChevron2008

Dupo, IL, USA

Large falling green ball of light

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-08
Where
Dupo, IL, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
38.516, -90.210 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-dupo-il-2008-43d47b
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…

In context

  • Dupo, IL has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 167 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.2% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.