UFOMYST
CaseFlash1997

Freeport, IL, USA

Two different reports of blinking light seen by same witness within a years time.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-15
Where
Freeport, IL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
42.297, -89.621 · exact
Slug
flash-over-freeport-il-1997-5379d1
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Freeport, IL shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from Illinois in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.3% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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