CaseLight1998
Scales Mound, IL, USA
Three, what we thought were satellites, converged in to a triangle and flew off in a different direction.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-15
- Where
- Scales Mound, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.476, -90.253 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-scales-mound-il-1998-05dbef
In context
- Scales Mound, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 66 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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