Park Ridge, IL, USA
((HOAX??)) 2 Huge White Orbs...moving slowly...at different directions...Chicago, IL
Report quality: Low25/100
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
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-08-01
- Where
- Park Ridge, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1:00 minute
- Geo
- 42.011, -87.841 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-park-ridge-il-2008-8b3b74
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 12 reports logged in Park Ridge, IL.
- This case is one of 167 Illinois reports filed in 2008.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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