CaseCircle1972

Bloomington, IL, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Bloomington, IL, USA
Start: 1972-08-10
Location: Bloomington, IL, USA

I I WAS WATCHING FOR METEORITES FROM MY FRONT PORCH, LIKE I DO EVERY YEAR ON AUG.10AND11. I HEARD A LOUD CRASH LIKE FARM MACHINARY SHU

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (134 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1972-08-10
Where: Bloomington, IL, USA
Shape: Circle
Duration: 3 hours
Geo: 40.484, -88.994 · exact
Slug: circle-over-bloomington-il-1972-c612cd

In context

This is one of 36 reports logged in Bloomington, IL.
This case is one of 10 Illinois reports filed in 1972.
Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

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