UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2017

Nashville, IL, USA

While night fishing at Washington Co. Lake, there was a very bright light in my SE. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-06-03
Where
Nashville, IL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 hours
Geo
38.344, -89.381 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-nashville-il-2017-9d438d
Wave

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Nashville, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 93 sightings in 2017.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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