Batavia UFO Crash Sighting

In 2010, a UFO crash was reported in Batavia, Illinois.

The observer who filed the report wrote a frustrated message to the National UFO Reporting Center, pleading for urgency: “You need to get off your lazy ass and find out what came down over Batavia” (Chicago Tribune).

A Chicago Tribune article by Christopher Borrelli published on July 15, 2021 listed the event as one of Illinois’ “greatest hits” of unexplained aerial phenomena, writing: “Batavia, 2010: A UFO crash!” Borrelli added that the keepers of these databases often leave witness names off reports for privacy, and that since anyone can report anything, actual investigations are a matter of triage.

Six years after the crash report, in MUFON Case 76835, an Illinois witness at Batavia reported videotaping a square or rectangle-shaped UFO as it crossed the sky silently about 8:50 p.m. on June 5, 2016.

A commenter on the Metabunk forum tested the idea that Batavia, home of Fermilab and its Tevatron, ought to be a UFO hotspot if aliens were watching American physics research. Citing Axios figures, the commenter found UFO reports for Kane County ran 34.6 per 100,000 people, against a national average of 34.4.