CaseOval1998
Schaumburg, IL, USA
One brightly-lit oval took off from the ground into the sky.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-02
- Where
- Schaumburg, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- :30 secs
- Geo
- 42.033, -88.083 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-schaumburg-il-1998-62b866
In context
- This is one of 23 reports logged in Schaumburg, IL.
- This case is one of 66 Illinois reports filed in 1998.
- Oval craft made up 3.6% of 1990s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
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.