CaseFormation1999
Champaign, IL, USA
i was riding in the car and i looked out the window and saw some strange lights in the sky. i thought it was just and air plane but the
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-03-07
- Where
- Champaign, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes total
- Geo
- 40.116, -88.243 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-champaign-il-1999-1a548a
In context
- One of 17 documented reports from Champaign, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 111 sightings in 1999.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).
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.