CaseLight1970
Lockport, IL, USA
Witnesses in Lockport, Illinois, described three lights chasing one another in July 1970, speeding up, slowing down, and making instant ninety-degree turns over about one minute.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (178 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-07-01
- Where
- Lockport, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.589, -88.058 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-lockport-il-1970-5ca5cf
In context
- Lockport, IL shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Illinois in 1970.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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