CaseLight1976
Wheaton, IL, USA
New Years Eve 1976 after 10:30 pm. We were traveling westbound along Warrenville Road, in Wheaton, IL. We saw a bright light, emitting
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-12-31
- Where
- Wheaton, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.866, -88.107 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-wheaton-il-1976-cd4a01
In context
- One of 21 documented reports from Wheaton, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 8 sightings in 1976.
- Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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