CaseCigar2003
Bloomingdale, IL, USA
Silent balloon shaped object
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-12-31
- Where
- Bloomingdale, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.958, -88.081 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-bloomingdale-il-2003-125ad7
In context
- Bloomingdale, IL shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from Illinois in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
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.