CaseSphere1972
Moline, IL, USA
Craft was spherical with windows turning, going up and down not more than 25 feet of the ground.
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-05-01
- Where
- Moline, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10to15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.507, -90.515 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-moline-il-1972-56521f
In context
- Moline, IL has 17 sightings on file here.
- 1972 brought 10 reports from Illinois.
- The 1970s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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.