Bourbonnais, IL, USA
A plasma-like ball shot across the sky at an incredibly high speed and disappeared, leaving an eerie trail of light behind.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-09-12
- Where
- Bourbonnais, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 41.154, -87.888 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bourbonnais-il-2010-d33352
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 11 reports logged in Bourbonnais, 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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.