CaseDisk1979
Springfield, IL, USA
Close up with a UFO
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (19 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-10-31
- Where
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- <5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.802, -89.644 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-springfield-il-1979-00e983
In context
- One of 54 documented reports from Springfield, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 14 sightings in 1979.
- Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.