CaseDisk1968
Freeport/Rockford, IL, USA
A witness driving between Freeport and Rockford, Illinois reported a brilliant, round, disk-shaped object following their car for several miles late at night in July 1968, over ten to fifteen 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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (200 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-07-25
- Where
- Freeport/Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.297, -89.621 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-freeport-rockford-il-1968-099427
In context
- Freeport/Rockford, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1968 brought 6 reports from Illinois.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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