Aurora, IL, USA
((HOAX??)) I seen a Cross shaped figure in the somewhat dark sky.. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
Report quality: Low18/100
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: 1020s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2006-06-09
- Where
- Aurora, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- 15-19 Mins
- Geo
- 41.761, -88.320 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-aurora-il-2006-27777a
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
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Aurora, IL.
- This case is one of 144 Illinois reports filed in 2006.
- Cross craft made up 0.3% of 2000s reports, vs 0.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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