CaseCylinder1980
Winchester, IL, USA
Object with red lights appeared nightly outside my upstairs bedroom window through the tree branches as if it wanted to communicate.
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: 28800s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-01-15
- Where
- Winchester, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- All Night
- Geo
- 39.630, -90.456 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-winchester-il-1980-f2a781
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Winchester, IL.
- This case is one of 9 Illinois reports filed in 1980.
- Cylinder craft made up 2% of 1980s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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