UFOMYST
CaseDisk1989

DuQuoin, IL, USA

My sister-in-law and I pulled up in the drive of their homeand she said, "What is that thing?"

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-09-02
Where
DuQuoin, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
38.011, -89.236 · exact
Slug
disk-over-duquoin-il-1989-ce4b92
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in DuQuoin, IL.
  • This case is one of 14 Illinois reports filed in 1989.
  • Disk craft made up 14.3% of 1980s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.