CaseDisk1962
Benton, IL, USA
In 1962, a young witness in Benton, Illinois, reported a saucer-shaped object that nearly landed nearby in daylight before flying away when their mother approached.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (164 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-06-01
- Where
- Benton, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 37.997, -88.920 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-benton-il-1962-d75c25
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Benton, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 6 sightings in 1962.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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