CaseFlash2000
Niota, IL, USA
flashes of light boggle a crowd's minds
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-09-15
- Where
- Niota, IL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 SECONDS
- Geo
- 40.618, -91.288 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-niota-il-2000-c98411
In context
- Niota, IL shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 96 reports came from Illinois in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
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.