UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Galesburg, IL, USA

About 10 white dots flying at the same speed overhead, in a triangular formation. ((Starlink satellites?))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-05-03
Where
Galesburg, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
About 5 minutes
Geo
40.948, -90.371 · exact
Slug
circle-over-galesburg-il-2020-8ecfad
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 20 documented reports from Galesburg, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 169 sightings in 2020.
  • Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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