CaseLight1999
Potomac, IL, USA
Strange light appeared in northern sky at about 15 degrees above horizon. Moved slowly upward and then faded out of sight.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-06-16
- Where
- Potomac, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 min
- Geo
- 40.305, -87.801 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-potomac-il-1999-68abb1
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Potomac, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 111 sightings in 1999.
- Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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