CaseChanging2002
Champaign, IL, USA
Bright light, very distant. Color and sligh shape changing for 5 minutes then dimming out to nothing.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-21
- Where
- Champaign, IL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5min
- Geo
- 40.116, -88.243 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-champaign-il-2002-70babd
In context
- Champaign, IL shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 98 reports came from Illinois in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
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.