Plainfield, IL, USA
Unbelievable fireworks in the heavens multiple orbs spotted, extensive video photos several witnesses
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-04
- Where
- Plainfield, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 41.627, -88.204 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-plainfield-il-2020-38c663
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
July 2020 was a busy month for Plainfield, IL: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Plainfield, IL.
- This case is one of 169 Illinois reports filed in 2020.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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