Bloomington (outside; north of), IL, USA
Traveling north on Route 29 outside Bloomington when in the sky was some type of craft that kept changing positions.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-30
- Where
- Bloomington (outside; north of), IL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 40.484, -88.994 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-bloomington-outside-north-of-il-2015-9fd70d
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Bloomington (outside; north of), IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 182 sightings in 2015.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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