UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1978

Paxton, IL, USA

White beacon of rotating white light followed by the same in green

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
Paxton, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
40.460, -88.095 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-paxton-il-1978-b50e61
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Paxton, IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from Illinois in 1978.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.