CaseFireball1958

Davis Jct. (on highway72 east to highway 51 north), IL, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Davis Jct. (on highway72 east to highway 51 north), IL, USA
Start: 1958-09-20
Location: Davis Jct. (on highway72 east to highway 51 north), IL, USA

red light with A GLOW AROUND IT DRIVING TO WORK 10;20PM DRIVING EAST SAW THIS LIGHT MAKING TRIANGLE MOTION CONTINIOUS MOTION IT WENT N.

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.

Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location could not be geocoded
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1958-09-20
Where: Davis Jct. (on highway72 east to highway 51 north), IL, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 5min
Geo: —
Slug: fireball-over-davis-jct-on-highway72-east-to-highway-51-north-il-1958-33ca59

In context

This is one of 1 reports logged in Davis Jct. (on highway72 east to highway 51 north), IL.
This case is one of 2 Illinois reports filed in 1958.
Fireball craft made up 3.9% of 1950s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

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