UFOMYST
CaseDisk2013

DeKalb, IL, USA

Original sent to me that I in turn enhanced. Picture taken with a cell phone while someone was on break at the DeKalb Forge Company.

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-02-01
Where
DeKalb, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1 second
Geo
41.929, -88.750 · exact
Slug
disk-over-dekalb-il-2013-c83f07
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 →

In context

  • DeKalb, IL has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 173 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.