UFOMYST
CaseDisk1990

Melvin, IL, USA

Saucer shaped object with three layers, very close encounter, several witnesses, most memorable event in my life.

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-01-15
Where
Melvin, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 to 15 mins
Geo
40.568, -88.248 · exact
Slug
disk-over-melvin-il-1990-b3b638
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Melvin, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 9 sightings in 1990.
  • Disk sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1990s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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