CaseDisk1998
Elgin, IL, USA
I can only say that I know what I saw, I even took a digital picture of it. 1:30 in the afternoon, clear blue sky, an airplane head
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-01
- Where
- Elgin, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.037, -88.281 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-elgin-il-1998-ab7bd1
In context
- Elgin, IL shows up 26 times across the archive.
- 66 reports came from Illinois in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 7.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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