UFOMYST
CaseCigar2006

Illinois (central area; in-flight, 31,000 ft.), IL, USA

bright elongated object sighted from airliner over central Illinois in blue midday sky at much higher altitude than 31,000 ft.

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 (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-08-01
Where
Illinois (central area; in-flight, 31,000 ft.), IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
approx. 4 min
Geo
41.398, -90.900 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-illinois-central-area-in-flight-31-000-ft-il-2006-e8d2ba
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Illinois (central area; in-flight, 31,000 ft.), IL.
  • This case is one of 144 Illinois reports filed in 2006.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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