UFOMYST
CaseOval2020

Sycamore, IL, USA

I was driving home from my sisters around 11:30pm at night Wednesday, Aug 5th 2020. About a mile from home I noticed a bright object in

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-05
Where
Sycamore, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
41.989, -88.687 · exact
Slug
oval-over-sycamore-il-2020-97d42a
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

  • One of 10 documented reports from Sycamore, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 169 sightings in 2020.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2020s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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