Belvidere, IL, USA
Saw bright object that sun was reflecting from in sky and then dissapeared
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-03
- Where
- Belvidere, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.264, -88.844 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-belvidere-il-2022-fa27a0
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
- Belvidere, IL shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 19 reports came from Illinois in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.