UFOMYST
CaseDisk2010

McHenry, IL, USA

((HOAX??)) I thought they were birds but the way they were flying didn't make sense.

Report quality: Low39/100

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  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2010-05-03
Where
McHenry, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 secs.
Geo
42.333, -88.267 · exact
Slug
disk-over-mchenry-il-2010-a2e168
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

McHenry, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of May 2010.

In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from McHenry, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 208 sightings in 2010.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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