CaseSphere1996

Granite City, IL, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Granite City, IL, USA
Start: 1996-08-01
Location: Granite City, IL, USA

We saw somthing in the sky that resembled sky writer plane @ first, but then turned into a pulsating ball.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (106 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1996-08-01
Where: Granite City, IL, USA
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 20 minutes
Geo: 38.701, -90.149 · exact
Slug: sphere-over-granite-city-il-1996-7522ca

In context

Granite City, IL shows up 11 times across the archive.
20 reports came from Illinois in 1996.
In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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