Chatham, IL, USA
I have recently become aware of how many ufos that actually exist, as I have seen similar (traveling stars) on many occasions, that can
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-10-03
- Where
- Chatham, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- ten seconds
- Geo
- 41.741, -87.613 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chatham-il-2007-49f23a
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
- Chatham, IL has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 181 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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