CaseCircle1963
Great Lakes, IL, USA
There were lights on the object, hovering, sparks flying, spinning in two different directions at the same time.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-07-15
- Where
- Great Lakes, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.309, -87.850 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-great-lakes-il-1963-2505d0
In context
- Great Lakes, IL shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Illinois in 1963.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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