CaseCylinder1998
Elgin, IL, USA
While looking up at sky I noticed a bright light hovering above the sky. then I noticed a jet airliner traveling in the same area and I
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-10
- Where
- Elgin, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 +/- min
- Geo
- 42.037, -88.281 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-elgin-il-1998-3a741a
In context
- Elgin, IL has 26 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 66 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 1.4% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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