CaseChanging1998
Carbondale, IL, USA
a Black object not moving. It was about 1500-2000 feet in altitude, and about the size of a gumball held at arms length.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-03
- Where
- Carbondale, IL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 37.727, -89.217 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-carbondale-il-1998-d8482f
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In context
- One of 14 documented reports from Carbondale, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 66 sightings in 1998.
- Changing sightings ran at 1.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).
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