CaseCigar2001
Palatine, IL, USA
Metallic, missile shaped object flying extremely high above the clouds.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-19
- Where
- Palatine, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.110, -88.034 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-palatine-il-2001-25bf4b
In context
- One of 28 documented reports from Palatine, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2001.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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