CaseCircle2002
Evanston, IL, USA
Bright circular object spotted hovering over a baseball field on a clear night for several minutes.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-06-18
- Where
- Evanston, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 mins
- Geo
- 42.041, -87.690 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-evanston-il-2002-8fc9f3
In context
- Evanston, IL shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 98 reports came from Illinois in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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