CaseLight2003
Mattoon, IL, USA
I noticed this light a month ago and it seems to be in the sky almost every night.... It is scary how it moves around so quickly at tim
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-02-17
- Where
- Mattoon, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 39.483, -88.373 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-mattoon-il-2003-c0f929
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Mattoon, IL.
- This case is one of 92 Illinois reports filed in 2003.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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