CaseCircle1972
Evanston, IL, USA
90 ft saucer, grey with white spinning lights underneath
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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-08-17
- Where
- Evanston, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5-6 minutes
- Geo
- 42.041, -87.690 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-evanston-il-1972-b4cf8d
In context
- One of 14 documented reports from Evanston, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 10 sightings in 1972.
- Circle sightings ran at 10.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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