CaseLight1974
Rockford, IL, USA
Bright white light, very fast, no sound or sonic boom, impossible maneuvers, too fast for aircraft
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-10-31
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rockford-il-1974-a07fd4
In context
- One of 133 documented reports from Rockford, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 11 sightings in 1974.
- Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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