CaseDisk1968
Downers Grove, IL, USA
Three witnesses in Downers Grove, Illinois reported a disk-shaped object flying by at roughly airplane altitude under clear morning skies in June 1968, during a sighting under five minutes.
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 (189 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-10
- Where
- Downers Grove, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- < 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.809, -88.011 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-downers-grove-il-1968-551531
In context
- This is one of 22 reports logged in Downers Grove, IL.
- This case is one of 6 Illinois reports filed in 1968.
- Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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