South Elgin, IL, USA
10 orange/red round objects size of a large plane lights at night - this happened during fourth of July fireworks, 500 Lights On Objec
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-04
- Where
- South Elgin, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 41.994, -88.292 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-south-elgin-il-2009-c308f7
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- South Elgin, IL shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.