CaseUnknown1996
Charleston, IL, USA
Four youth camping witness big white light, then huge triangular craft w/ 2 red lights on side. Obj. illuminated them with spotlight.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-05-21
- Where
- Charleston, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 min.
- Geo
- 39.496, -88.176 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-charleston-il-1996-5651aa
In context
- Charleston, IL has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 20 reports from Illinois.
Report
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