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
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- 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
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
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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