CaseCigar1999
Carlinville (from, until almost Carrollton), IL, USA
While driving at 1900 hours after a late evening social work appointment I observed a large cigar shaped object which appeared to be a
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-01-19
- Where
- Carlinville (from, until almost Carrollton), IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 39.280, -89.882 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-carlinville-from-until-almost-carrollton-il-1999-3ef6d0
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Carlinville (from, until almost Carrollton), IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 111 sightings in 1999.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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