UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1997

Murphysboro, IL, USA

The witnessed reported to me she saw a irradescent,green,cylindar object move horizontal across the sky going South to North. She first

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-24
Where
Murphysboro, IL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
Approx:5min.
Geo
37.764, -89.335 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-murphysboro-il-1997-4aec69
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Murphysboro, IL shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from Illinois in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

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