UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop1997

Old Valmeyer Bottoms-Valmeyer, IL, USA

Blue bullet shaped light appeared 200-400ft above ground level. Traveling slightly slower than a meterorite, and lasting approx. 30 se

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Old Valmeyer Bottoms-Valmeyer, IL, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
—
Slug
teardrop-over-old-valmeyer-bottoms-valmeyer-il-1997-0bbca3
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Old Valmeyer Bottoms-Valmeyer, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 55 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1990s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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