CaseCircle1996
Clinton (US Highway 51), IL, USA
Daylight causing blue orb in Illinois
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-06-15
- Where
- Clinton (US Highway 51), IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30-45 secs
- Geo
- 40.154, -88.965 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-clinton-us-highway-51-il-1996-131f5b
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Clinton (US Highway 51), IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 20 sightings in 1996.
- Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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