UFOMYST
CaseOval1977

Des Plaines, IL, USA

Grandma's UFO

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (13 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-05-01
Where
Des Plaines, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 hour
Geo
42.033, -87.883 · exact
Slug
oval-over-des-plaines-il-1977-f606bd
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Des Plaines, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 13 sightings in 1977.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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