UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Millstadt, IL, USA

BRIGHT BLUEISH BALL OF LIGHT WITH TAIL, ILLUMINATED A 2000 SQ.FT. AREA FOR ABOUT 5 SECONDS.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Millstadt, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
38.461, -90.092 · exact
Slug
light-over-millstadt-il-1997-562798
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Millstadt, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of July 1997.

In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Millstadt, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 55 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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