Algonquin, IL, USA
((HOAX??)) It was a glowing yellow object that left a thin vapor trail that evaporated soon after it dissipeared.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-06-17
- Where
- Algonquin, IL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 10 SECONDS
- Geo
- 42.166, -88.294 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-algonquin-il-2008-95da03
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…
In context
- Algonquin, IL shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 167 reports came from Illinois in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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