CaseCircle2002

Urbana, IL, USA

approximately 11 bright orange objects sighted travelling SW to NE at 23:40 on 02/02/02 in Urbana, IL.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2002-02-02
Where
Urbana, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5-7 minutes
Geo
40.111, -88.207 · exact
Slug
circle-over-urbana-il-2002-b66f5c
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Urbana, IL reports filed in February 2002.

In context

  • Urbana, IL shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 98 reports came from Illinois in 2002.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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