UFOMYST
CaseCigar2016

Elk Grove Village, IL, USA

I was outside with my boyfriend on our back patio. I live right next to airport so I'm used to seeing lots of lights and airplanes and

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-12
Where
Elk Grove Village, IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
42.004, -87.970 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-elk-grove-village-il-2016-28c937
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…

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Elk Grove Village, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 156 sightings in 2016.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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