CaseCylinder2001
Downers Grove, IL, USA
The vehicle or object was a strange glowing gold/orange color and didn't resemble any jet aircraft I've seen in the past.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-01
- Where
- Downers Grove, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 4-5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.809, -88.011 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-downers-grove-il-2001-0cccf8
In context
- One of 22 documented reports from Downers Grove, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2001.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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