CaseCircle2004
Matteson, IL, USA
Multiple red lights.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-21
- Where
- Matteson, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- first event: 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.504, -87.713 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-matteson-il-2004-baf7e0
Wave
Part of a wave
IL flap 2004-08
IL, USA
41 sightings in geohash dp3s (IL) during 2004 peak months 8–8; top shape light
Flap
IL flap 2004-08
This case is part of the IL flap 2004-08 — 41 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.
Explore this area →In context
- One of 12 documented reports from Matteson, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 220 sightings in 2004.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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