Plainfield, IL, USA
My dad wanted me to tell you that in October of 2006 he was putting up christmas lights and my brother was with him and my dad looked u
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-01
- Where
- Plainfield, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.627, -88.204 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-plainfield-il-2006-b664d7
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
- Plainfield, IL shows up 34 times across the archive.
- 144 reports came from Illinois in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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