Ottawa, IL, USA
It was this past Sunday when I looked up and say what I thought at first was a hawk flying very high like they do when looking for prey
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-06-14
- Where
- Ottawa, IL, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 4 MIN
- Geo
- 41.346, -88.843 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-ottawa-il-2009-f367b7
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
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Ottawa, IL.
- This case is one of 140 Illinois reports filed in 2009.
- Egg craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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