CaseDisk1969
Champaign, IL, USA
Witnesses in Champaign, Illinois, debated in July 1969 whether an object covered in numerous lights resembled a disk or an enormous spider-like shape, visible about five minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (178 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-07-15
- Where
- Champaign, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 40.116, -88.243 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-champaign-il-1969-1f96bd
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In context
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Champaign, IL.
- This case is one of 8 Illinois reports filed in 1969.
- Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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