CaseCylinder2015

Schiller Park, IL, USA

Possible ufo crash.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 21600s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (19 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-09-17
Where
Schiller Park, IL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
6+ hours
Geo
41.956, -87.871 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-schiller-park-il-2015-70c752
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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Schiller Park, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 182 sightings in 2015.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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