Manteno, IL, USA
((HOAX??)) Saw egg shaped craft on the ground in felid, then it turned a blue-ish color and took off,
Report quality: Low25/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2010-12-23
- Where
- Manteno, IL, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 5:00 Mins
- Geo
- 41.251, -87.831 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-manteno-il-2010-cc3517
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
- Manteno, IL shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 208 reports came from Illinois in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 0.7% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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