CaseCircle1999
Decatur, IL, USA
I was in my van with my 2 children, headed east on West Main Street. In the eastern sky we saw a round, red object with smoke behind i
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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-17
- Where
- Decatur, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 50 seconds
- Geo
- 39.840, -88.955 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-decatur-il-1999-48935d
In context
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Decatur, IL.
- This case is one of 111 Illinois reports filed in 1999.
- Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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