CaseSphere1972
Moline, IL, USA
A witness in Moline, Illinois reported a spherical craft with windows, rotating and moving up and down within about 25 feet of the ground, during a ten-to-fifteen-minute sighting in May 1972.
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (191 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
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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
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