CaseLight1968
OFallon, IL, Pacific Ocean
Witnesses over the Pacific Ocean reported a circular green light rising vertically from the water to 30,000-40,000 feet before accelerating out of sight horizontally in August 1968, over four minutes.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (200 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-08-16
- Where
- OFallon, IL, Pacific Ocean
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 38.811, -90.700 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-ofallon-il-1968-b724f9
In context
- OFallon, Pacific Ocean has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1968 brought 2 reports from Pacific Ocean.
- The 1960s skewed 11.3% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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