UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Collinsville, IL, USA

A blue light streaked across the sky at high speed for a couple seconds. It was accompained by a crackling of burning 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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Collinsville, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
38.670, -89.985 · exact
Slug
light-over-collinsville-il-1997-180108
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Collinsville, IL shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from Illinois in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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