CaseTeardrop1982
Arcola, IL, USA
Driving home at night I became mesmerized by a flying vehicle in my lane of traffic--football shaped on one end.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1982-06-01
- Where
- Arcola, IL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.685, -88.306 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-arcola-il-1982-c628d1
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Arcola, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 7 sightings in 1982.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.4% during the 1980s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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