UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

Virden, IL, USA

UFO {SAUCER SHAPE} IN THE CLOUDS

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-02-03
Where
Virden, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1-2minutes
Geo
39.501, -89.768 · exact
Slug
disk-over-virden-il-1997-821bec
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Virden, IL shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from Illinois in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 7.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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.