Peoria, IL, USA
Witnesses in Peoria, Illinois, reported two or three disk-shaped objects flying in formation during daylight, which then shot away quickly, in a sighting lasting several minutes in June 1967.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (191 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-30
- Where
- Peoria, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- minutes
- Geo
- 40.694, -89.589 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-peoria-il-1967-5b3739
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Peoria, IL has 40 sightings on file here.
- 1967 brought 6 reports from Illinois.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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