CaseLight1988
Alton, IL, USA
I was called to the back porch by my grandmother and she showed me the lights in the sky. ((MO INVESTIGATORS GROUP REPORT. PD))
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-06-01
- Where
- Alton, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 38.891, -90.184 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-alton-il-1988-6e31d4
In context
- Alton, IL has 14 sightings on file here.
- 1988 brought 9 reports from Illinois.
- The 1980s skewed 11% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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