CaseSphere1998
Carbondale, IL, USA
I saw a spherical object at a distance. It had a slight green glow. It just appeared, then took off in a northeast direction very qui
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-16
- Where
- Carbondale, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 37.727, -89.217 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-carbondale-il-1998-7d34b5
In context
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Carbondale, IL.
- This case is one of 66 Illinois reports filed in 1998.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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