UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Bartlett, IL, USA

UFO Followes us to Police Dept then disappeared then reappeared as we headed home. I stood under it for about 30 to 40 minutes. 500

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 2250s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-09-01
Where
Bartlett, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 to 45 min
Geo
41.995, -88.186 · exact
Slug
disk-over-bartlett-il-1978-aedb43
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Bartlett, IL shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from Illinois in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

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