UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

Palatine, IL, USA

25+flickering red/orange orbs were at a constant high speed, following the exact same straight line path as the others.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-30
Where
Palatine, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15
Geo
42.110, -88.034 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-palatine-il-2012-ee0724
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Palatine, IL has 28 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 270 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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