Crystal Lake, IL, USA
Cigar shaped oject over Crystal Lake, IL with one red and several white lights hovering slowly then faded into space leaving a trail
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.
- Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-30
- Where
- Crystal Lake, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 4 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.241, -88.316 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-crystal-lake-il-2005-fff9e4
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
- This is one of 27 reports logged in Crystal Lake, IL.
- This case is one of 209 Illinois reports filed in 2005.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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