UFOMYST
CaseDisk1947

Johnston City, IL, USA

I was only 13 at the time but I will never forget what I watch on that warm July evening I'am 69 now

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1947-07-09
Where
Johnston City, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
45 SEC.
Geo
37.821, -88.928 · exact
Slug
disk-over-johnston-city-il-1947-fed516
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1947

    The Summer of the Saucers

    United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)

    Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…

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In context

  • Johnston City, IL has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 1947 brought 2 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1940s skewed 27.3% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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