CaseDisk1998
Penfield, IL, USA
We seen two flying objects standing still in the sky about 30 feet in the air. They began to come straight down then disappeared.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-31
- Where
- Penfield, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.303, -87.947 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-penfield-il-1998-8e5af6
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Penfield, IL.
- This case is one of 66 Illinois reports filed in 1998.
- Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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