CaseCylinder1985
Kankakee, IL, USA
On the evening of June 20, 1985 I observed what appeared to be an Unidentified Flying Object at around 21:00 hrs. At the time, I was
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1985-06-20
- Where
- Kankakee, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.120, -87.861 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-kankakee-il-1985-5a050b
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Kankakee, IL.
- This case is one of 4 Illinois reports filed in 1985.
- Cylinder craft made up 2% of 1980s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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