Glenview, IL, USA
Large ball of light hovering above the road in Glenview, Illinois - 25 - 30 observers - 1967 or 1968.
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 (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-30
- Where
- Glenview, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes +
- Geo
- 42.070, -87.788 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-glenview-il-1967-ab0092
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Glenview, IL has 12 sightings on file here.
- 1967 brought 6 reports from Illinois.
- The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.