UFOMYST
CaseOther2013

Metropolis, IL, USA

This happen around 8/20/13. We were on a train working and we're sitting still in a railroad siding waiting on trains.It was a clear n

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-20
Where
Metropolis, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5:00 minutes
Geo
37.151, -88.732 · exact
Slug
other-over-metropolis-il-2013-27253a
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

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Metropolis, IL.
  • This case is one of 173 Illinois reports filed in 2013.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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