Mt. Vernon, IL, USA
UFOs reported to police in IL, (60 mi NW of Mt. Venon, IN) ((NUFORC Note: Report by Francis Ridge, experienced UFO investigator. PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-07-12
- Where
- Mt. Vernon, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 38.317, -88.903 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-mt-vernon-il-1977-98a0ff
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In context
- Mt. Vernon, IL shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 13 reports came from Illinois in 1977.
Report
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