CaseOther1976
Centralia/Walnut Hill area, IL, USA
Orange line of light seen travelling from the south in southern Illinois leaves burned remains of a tree.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-09-15
- Where
- Centralia/Walnut Hill area, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 38.525, -89.133 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-centralia-walnut-hill-area-il-1976-3a9fab
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Centralia/Walnut Hill area, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 8 sightings in 1976.
- Other sightings ran at 6.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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