UFOMYST
CaseCircle2011

Ridgway, IL, USA

4 smaller objects went into 1 larger, brighter pulsating object that emitted a bright white light for 30sec

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 (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-04
Where
Ridgway, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5min
Geo
37.799, -88.261 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ridgway-il-2011-a9a53e
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…

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In context

  • Ridgway, IL has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 219 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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