UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Troy, IL, USA

It was something not from this world.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Troy, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
38.729, -89.883 · exact
Slug
circle-over-troy-il-1997-1ce924
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Troy, IL shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from Illinois in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate 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.