CaseFlash1998
Belvidere (5 miles north of), IL, USA
Large blue flash and con trail similar to meteor, however with a evenly split blue tail. And a con trail that sustained for approximate
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-13
- Where
- Belvidere (5 miles north of), IL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10secs
- Geo
- 42.264, -88.844 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-belvidere-5-miles-north-of-il-1998-9d0e99
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Belvidere (5 miles north of), IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 66 sightings in 1998.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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