CaseCigar1998
Bartlett, IL, USA
at 6:24 P.M. i saw a cigar shaped object w/ red lights and one white light on the nose,it was moving west/northwest.very fast and slowe
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-24
- Where
- Bartlett, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 25 secs.
- Geo
- 41.995, -88.186 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-bartlett-il-1998-5822b5
In context
- This is one of 18 reports logged in Bartlett, IL.
- This case is one of 66 Illinois reports filed in 1998.
- Cigar craft made up 2.3% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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