UFOMYST
CaseChanging2006

Riverton, IL, USA

An x shaped ufo seemed to change shape.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-04-28
Where
Riverton, IL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
39.844, -89.540 · exact
Slug
changing-over-riverton-il-2006-1a6f29
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Riverton, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 144 sightings in 2006.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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