CaseSphere2002
Salem, IL, USA
Me and another person have witnessed a pinball-like object gliding through the sky on multiple occasions.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-16
- Where
- Salem, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- A few moments
- Geo
- 38.627, -88.946 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-salem-il-2002-39d3d0
In context
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Salem, IL.
- This case is one of 98 Illinois reports filed in 2002.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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