CaseLight1997

Belleville area college, IL, USA

while watching fireworks i saw and many otheres saw a bright blue light go over us farly fast and then disappear. every one was wowed

Report quality: Moderate43/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Belleville area college, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
bright blue light
Geo
Slug
light-over-belleville-area-college-il-1997-44a31a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Belleville area college, IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from Illinois in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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