UFOMYST
CaseFormation2020

Jacksonville, IL, USA

((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information. PD))

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2020-04-26
Where
Jacksonville, IL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10
Geo
39.734, -90.229 · exact
Slug
formation-over-jacksonville-il-2020-ef98ca
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Jacksonville, IL has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 169 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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