UFOMYST
CaseCircle2011

Matteson, IL, USA

A bright blue light all around it and a red light under it., it was not moving for about 10mins after that started moving very slow

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-10-16
Where
Matteson, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 mins
Geo
41.504, -87.713 · exact
Slug
circle-over-matteson-il-2011-ed5578
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Matteson, IL in October 2011 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Matteson, IL has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 219 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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