UFOMYST
CaseEgg2010

Manteno, IL, USA

((HOAX??)) Saw Egg shaped craft taking off from a felid, it was blue, flew for about 500 ft then diseparred.

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2010-12-23
Where
Manteno, IL, USA
Shape
Egg
Duration
1 mins
Geo
41.251, -87.831 · exact
Slug
egg-over-manteno-il-2010-50b327
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 12 documented reports from Manteno, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 208 sightings in 2010.
  • Egg sightings ran at 0.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

Report

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