CaseDisk1979

Rockford/Belvedere (between), IL, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Rockford/Belvedere (between), IL, USA
Start: 1979-09-01
Location: Rockford/Belvedere (between), IL, USA

Saw a very large object 1000-1500 ft in diameter having difficulty. Saucer shaped about twice the size of a quarter held at arms lengt

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (134 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1979-09-01
Where: Rockford/Belvedere (between), IL, USA
Shape: Disk
Duration: 5-10 MIN
Geo: 42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug: disk-over-rockford-belvedere-between-il-1979-619d87

In context

Rockford/Belvedere (between), IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
14 reports came from Illinois in 1979.
In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

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