UFOMYST
CaseSphere1989

Kewanee, IL, USA

Reddish-orange sphere seen outside Kewanee, IL

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1989-10-11
Where
Kewanee, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
41.246, -89.925 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-kewanee-il-1989-e132d0
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In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Kewanee, IL.
  • This case is one of 14 Illinois reports filed in 1989.
  • Sphere craft made up 8.1% of 1980s reports, vs 6.5% 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.