Sycamore, IL, USA
I was driving down Rt 23 when I seen a giant light brighten up the sky. It lasted only 2 secounds appeared to be only a fireball but it
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-03-01
- Where
- Sycamore, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 41.989, -88.687 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sycamore-il-2015-669d7a
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 10 reports logged in Sycamore, IL.
- This case is one of 182 Illinois reports filed in 2015.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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