Lemont, IL, USA
Orange lights over Chicago area 7/7/07
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-07-07
- Where
- Lemont, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.674, -88.002 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lemont-il-2007-a92288
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
Lemont, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2007.
In context
- One of 11 documented reports from Lemont, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 181 sightings in 2007.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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