Jacksonville, IL, USA
Ball of light, west of city, was wiggling, observed for 20 min. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus? PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- 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
- 2010-06-29
- Where
- Jacksonville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 mins.
- Geo
- 39.734, -90.229 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-jacksonville-il-2010-cddae9
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
- Jacksonville, IL has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 208 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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