UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

Galesburg, IL, USA

bright light became much larger ((NUFORC Note: Probably Iridium satellite. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-03-07
Where
Galesburg, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 sec.
Geo
40.948, -90.371 · exact
Slug
light-over-galesburg-il-2005-8069c7
Wave

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In context

  • One of 20 documented reports from Galesburg, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 209 sightings in 2005.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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