Crystal Lake, IL, USA
Didn't know this Object was in the clouds till I got home and looked at the picture. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-06-22
- Where
- Crystal Lake, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- Picture
- Geo
- 42.241, -88.316 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-crystal-lake-il-2011-c4ed5b
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
- This is one of 27 reports logged in Crystal Lake, IL.
- This case is one of 219 Illinois reports filed in 2011.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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