CaseUnknown1959
Evanston, IL, USA
In 1959, a group of witnesses in Evanston, Illinois, reported a distant object appearing in the same part of the sky on three consecutive nights, each for about 20 minutes.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (172 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-05-15
- Where
- Evanston, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.041, -87.690 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-evanston-il-1959-08a391
In context
- Evanston, IL shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Illinois in 1959.
Report
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