CaseCigar2001
Columbia, IL, USA
A rectangular, yellow band of light from an object that made very quick, precise movements in any direction.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-16
- Where
- Columbia, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 38.444, -90.201 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-columbia-il-2001-6ecc26
In context
- Columbia, IL shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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