CaseFormation1947
Keeneyville, IL, USA
A burning particle from space experienced coincident with an unusual over flight at high altitude
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-07-15
- Where
- Keeneyville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- five minutes
- Geo
- 41.968, -88.120 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-keeneyville-il-1947-89fa8d
Wave
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- Keeneyville, IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Illinois in 1947.
- In the 1940s, 3.9% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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