Batavia, IL, USA
Orb sited under cloud,disappears, then a minute later see it falling out of the sky like a metorite, jet chasing it.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-06-26
- Where
- Batavia, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 41.850, -88.313 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-batavia-il-2010-6131c1
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…
Local cluster
June 2010 was a busy month for Batavia, IL: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Batavia, IL.
- This case is one of 208 Illinois reports filed in 2010.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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