UFOMYST
CaseSphere2011

Lemont, IL, USA

Very bright light in heavily travelled airspace. ((NUFORC Note: Could not have been ISS at 23:00 hrs.. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2011-06-28
Where
Lemont, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
41.674, -88.002 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-lemont-il-2011-0a84b6
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

  • Lemont, IL has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 219 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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