CaseCircle1998
Carpentersville, IL, USA
Bright round object in sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (26 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-10
- Where
- Carpentersville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.121, -88.258 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-carpentersville-il-1998-35b3fd
In context
- Carpentersville, IL shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 66 reports came from Illinois in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.