UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Belleville Community College, IL, USA

During fire works display the blue object moved in the southern sky from east to west. Most people my have taken it for a miss fired fi

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Belleville Community College, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
—
Slug
light-over-belleville-community-college-il-1997-a03334
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Belleville Community College, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 55 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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