CaseDisk1961
Palatine, IL, USA
In 1961, a witness near a missile base in Palatine, Illinois, reported five orange disk-shaped objects bobbing up and down and side to side, over about thirty 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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-08-09
- Where
- Palatine, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 min approx.
- Geo
- 42.110, -88.034 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-palatine-il-1961-56d45e
In context
- One of 28 documented reports from Palatine, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 3 sightings in 1961.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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