UFOMYST
CaseSphere2021

Cicero, IL, USA

Whitish sphere with red flashing light moving steady from E to W never changing its plane. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly 9 p.m.? PD))

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-10-27
Where
Cicero, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
41.846, -87.754 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-cicero-il-2021-f5c9ee
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

  • Cicero, IL shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 71 reports came from Illinois in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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