Normal, IL, USA
standing outside my friends house looking at the stars we saw an object with no lights it.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-11-02
- Where
- Normal, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 secs
- Geo
- 40.514, -88.991 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-normal-il-2007-18eea9
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
- Normal, IL shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 181 reports came from Illinois in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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