UFOMYST
CaseFireball2008

Elmhurst, IL, USA

Fireball object (2 of them) heading west to east at steady rate of speed. No sound emitted from the craft. Another followed behind.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-15
Where
Elmhurst, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.899, -87.940 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-elmhurst-il-2008-04fde1
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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In context

  • Elmhurst, IL has 15 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 167 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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