CaseCigar1997
Casey, IL, USA
Crafts emit beams of what looks like smoke from their front end, and then follow these emissions
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-07
- Where
- Casey, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 8 min
- Geo
- 39.299, -87.993 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-casey-il-1997-a92f49
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Casey, IL has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 55 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure 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.