UFOMYST
CaseCigar2011

In-flight sighting, IL, USA

Tube or cigar shaped object floating in the air around the illinois/wisconsin border.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-26
Where
In-flight sighting, IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 or 15 mins
Geo
—
Slug
cigar-over-in-flight-sighting-il-2011-e86578
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from In-flight sighting, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 219 sightings in 2011.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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