CaseLight1999
Machesney Park, IL, USA
Exiting my car after returning from work, I noticed a unusual light to the left of true north at about ll oclock. It "blinked out" aft
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-06-06
- Where
- Machesney Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 secs
- Geo
- 42.347, -89.039 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-machesney-park-il-1999-de9192
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Machesney Park, IL.
- This case is one of 111 Illinois reports filed in 1999.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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