Niles, IL, USA
Police Officer observed 2 silent red spheres with shimmering white halos moving east in "wing-man" formation.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-03
- Where
- Niles, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.019, -87.803 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-niles-il-2014-096fbf
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
Niles, IL logged 4 reports in the single month of July 2014.
In context
- One of 10 documented reports from Niles, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 173 sightings in 2014.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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