CaseCircle1980
Dekalb, IL, USA
Circular object with alternating flashing lights with a bright beam of light focused on a tower.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-05-25
- Where
- Dekalb, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 MINUTES
- Geo
- 41.929, -88.750 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-dekalb-il-1980-05b2f4
In context
- This is one of 11 reports logged in Dekalb, IL.
- This case is one of 9 Illinois reports filed in 1980.
- Circle craft made up 8.2% of 1980s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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