UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Wheeling, IL, USA

4 white lights moving from the center of the circle towards the perimeter and then back to the center.((NUFORC Note: Adv. Lights??PD))

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-05-19
Where
Wheeling, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
42.139, -87.929 · exact
Slug
circle-over-wheeling-il-2018-5365be
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 11 reports logged in Wheeling, IL.
  • This case is one of 104 Illinois reports filed in 2018.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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