CaseLight1998
Buffalo Grove, IL, USA
I saw an object that displayed Intelligence, bright light and great speed.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-20
- Where
- Buffalo Grove, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.151, -87.960 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-buffalo-grove-il-1998-bcbfe2
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Buffalo Grove, IL.
- This case is one of 66 Illinois reports filed in 1998.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.