CaseFormation1996
San Jose, IL, USA
Coming home from voting in "96" my wife and I noticed 7-8 craft off to the west. Flying very erratically, almost looked like they were
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-11-06
- Where
- San Jose, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 40.306, -89.603 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-jose-il-1996-dac260
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from San Jose, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 20 sightings in 1996.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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