UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Rockford, IL, USA

Strange Orange Light Balls Over Rockford Illinois

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-24
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rockford-il-2012-63c789
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

  • This is one of 133 reports logged in Rockford, IL.
  • This case is one of 270 Illinois reports filed in 2012.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.