UFOMYST
CaseOval1977

Palatine, IL, USA

Oval shaped object flies over Palatine, while it hoovers; over a private school called: Little City.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-05-01
Where
Palatine, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 hour
Geo
42.110, -88.034 · exact
Slug
oval-over-palatine-il-1977-072b42
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Palatine, IL has 28 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 13 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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