CaseFormation1998
Mt Sterling, IL, USA
3 orange fireballs in triangle formation - 1 triangle shaped craft without sound.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-01
- Where
- Mt Sterling, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.987, -90.763 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-mt-sterling-il-1998-ec185f
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Mt Sterling, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 66 sightings in 1998.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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