CaseCigar1999
Frankfort/New Lenox, IL, USA
First noticed object in Western sky, like a craft with a small contrail.As veiwing object it seemed to look like a cigar shape. My hus
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
- 1999-09-06
- Where
- Frankfort/New Lenox, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 41.496, -87.849 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-frankfort-new-lenox-il-1999-508d20
In context
- Frankfort/New Lenox, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 111 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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