Lake Villa, IL, USA
Other neighbors have described the same object...at different times/days.
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 (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-06-30
- Where
- Lake Villa, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- A second
- Geo
- 42.417, -88.074 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-lake-villa-il-2009-794a8e
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
- Lake Villa, IL has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure 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.