Des Plaines, Unknown
Several dots around the sun appeared while the puff was falling. I took pictures.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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 (81 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-12-23
- Where
- Des Plaines, Unknown
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.033, -87.883 · fallback
- Slug
- unknown-over-des-plaines-2021-e9ab62
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Des Plaines, Unknown.
- This case is one of 11 Unknown reports filed in 2021.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.