CaseDisk1962
Lawrence County (rural agriculture field), IL, USA
In 1962, a witness in rural Lawrence County, Illinois, reported a disk-shaped craft observed at close range over a rural agricultural field, for about fifteen 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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-06-15
- Where
- Lawrence County (rural agriculture field), IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 38.720, -87.727 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-lawrence-county-rural-agriculture-field-il-1962-f43bc0
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Lawrence County (rural agriculture field), IL.
- This case is one of 6 Illinois reports filed in 1962.
- Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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