UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2022

Payson, IL, USA

MADAR Node 97

Report quality: Moderate52/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (13 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2022-04-23
Where
Payson, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
—
Geo
39.817, -91.242 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-payson-il-2022-c4909f
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

  • One of 16 documented reports from Payson, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 19 sightings in 2022.

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.