UFOMYST
CaseCircle2010

Rockford, IL, USA

Circular, barely any light, huge, white-silver tinge, made no sound.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2010-06-20
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rockford-il-2010-aa56f8
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

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Rockford, IL reports filed in June 2010.

In context

  • Rockford, IL shows up 133 times across the archive.
  • 208 reports came from Illinois in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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