UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Des Plaines, IL, USA

Sighting in Illinois

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (20 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-10-15
Where
Des Plaines, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 sec
Geo
42.033, -87.883 · exact
Slug
disk-over-des-plaines-il-1978-97551b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Des Plaines, IL has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 9 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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.