UFOMYST
CaseDisk2009

Prophetstown, IL, USA

A silver/bright round/disk object flying at a high rate of speed in an irregular path at a high altitude in a cloudy sky over N. IL.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-15
Where
Prophetstown, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.671, -89.936 · exact
Slug
disk-over-prophetstown-il-2009-024825
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

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Prophetstown, IL.
  • This case is one of 140 Illinois reports filed in 2009.
  • Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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