CaseCircle1984
Kirkland, IL, USA
((HOAX??)) Dammed scared and we all went home. Noone believed us and we just didnt talk about it anymore
Report quality: Low21/100
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 (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 1984-01-24
- Where
- Kirkland, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.093, -88.851 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-kirkland-il-1984-52074b
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Kirkland, IL.
- This case is one of 4 Illinois reports filed in 1984.
- Circle craft made up 8.2% of 1980s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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