UFOMYST
CaseCigar2012

Homewood, IL, USA

Bright, fast-moving, glowing or flaming object moving south to north approx.10 - 15,000 feet. 'Flames' went out at passed overhead.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-22
Where
Homewood, IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1 min
Geo
41.557, -87.666 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-homewood-il-2012-6a8036
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

  • Homewood, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 270 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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