CaseOval1998
Bartelso (outside of), IL, USA
I found a oval shape object hovering over a flooded field at aprox 50 to 75 ft. I watched the object for aprox 1 min. Craft then went
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 (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-01-26
- Where
- Bartelso (outside of), IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 .5 min total
- Geo
- 38.536, -89.466 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-bartelso-outside-of-il-1998-69a5ab
In context
- Bartelso (outside of), IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 66 reports came from Illinois in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 3.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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