UFOMYST
CaseOther2011

Volo, IL, USA

orange fireball with a strange shape craft in the middle base height of cloud ceiling was 7,000 ft and 8,500 ft overcast object was mov

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-09-08
Where
Volo, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 min
Geo
42.326, -88.168 · exact
Slug
other-over-volo-il-2011-2de6ee
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 Volo, IL.
  • This case is one of 219 Illinois reports filed in 2011.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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