UFOMYST
CaseSphere2016

Peoria, IL, USA

Glowing ball shaped object, flashing red/green/blue and very bright in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" star? Sirius? Anon. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 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
2016-04-21
Where
Peoria, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.694, -89.589 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-peoria-il-2016-664e52
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

  • Peoria, IL has 40 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 156 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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