UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2010

Rockford, IL, USA

Long black tube seen in Rockford IL

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-05-28
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-rockford-il-2010-a71061
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Rockford, IL in May 2010 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Rockford, IL has 133 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 208 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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