CaseOval1996
Knoxville, IL, USA
Taking pictures of hayfields to paint.Object was not seen until film was developed.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-08-04
- Where
- Knoxville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3-5 min
- Geo
- 40.908, -90.285 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-knoxville-il-1996-146786
In context
- Knoxville, IL shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from Illinois in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 3.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.