Evanston, IL, USA
Locagion: over Lake Michigan, seen from South Blvd. Beach in Evanston, IL. 200-300 yards from shore @ about 10:00PM. A hovering obje
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-19
- Where
- Evanston, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 or 10 min.
- Geo
- 42.041, -87.690 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-evanston-il-2005-6cce10
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
- Evanston, IL has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 209 reports from Illinois.
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.