UFOMYST
CaseLight1966

Zion, IL, USA

We spotted a large extremely bright light in the sky, maybe half the size the moon appears as a half moon. ((anonymous report))

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-10-15
Where
Zion, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20-30 seconds
Geo
42.446, -87.833 · exact
Slug
light-over-zion-il-1966-fee653
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Zion, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 9 sightings in 1966.
  • Light sightings ran at 11.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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