CaseCircle2003
Wilmette, IL, USA
As I was sitting in my back yard it started to thunder, than I looked up and there was a circle in the sky than it disapeared.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-05-11
- Where
- Wilmette, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.072, -87.723 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wilmette-il-2003-784bd6
In context
- Wilmette, IL has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 92 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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