CaseCircle2000
Palatine, IL, USA
round black object hovering over line of trees
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-09-25
- Where
- Palatine, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2-5 min
- Geo
- 42.110, -88.034 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-palatine-il-2000-bba305
In context
- One of 28 documented reports from Palatine, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 96 sightings in 2000.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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