UFOMYST
CaseOval2011

Morton, IL, USA

On 9/12/2011 around 2:30 AM I was half sleep when I heard a weird humming noise outside. I woke up and went outside to see what it was

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-12
Where
Morton, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
40.613, -89.459 · exact
Slug
oval-over-morton-il-2011-9978b0
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

  • Morton, IL has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 219 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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