CaseCircle1998

S. Beloit, IL, USA

Name: UFO sighting — S. Beloit, IL, USA
Start: 1998-05-15
Location: S. Beloit, IL, USA

IT LOOKED LIKE A REG STAR,WHEN I STARTED TO LOOK AT IT FOR MAYBE 1 MIN. OR SO IT GOT VERY BRITE VERY HOT WHITE THEN IT SEEMED TO GO UP

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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (134 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1998-05-15
Where: S. Beloit, IL, USA
Shape: Circle
Duration: 35 sec.
Geo: 42.493, -89.037 · exact
Slug: circle-over-s-beloit-il-1998-4e5c44

In context

S. Beloit, IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
66 reports came from Illinois in 1998.
In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

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