Hawthorn Woods, IL, USA
Glowing orange craft seen over Hawthorn Woods, IL on 07-04-08 at 23:35
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-04
- Where
- Hawthorn Woods, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.217, -88.050 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hawthorn-woods-il-2008-ae4899
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
- One of 3 documented reports from Hawthorn Woods, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 167 sightings in 2008.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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