UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Columbia, IL, USA

Neon light blue ball passing east to west across the sky

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Columbia, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
38.444, -90.201 · exact
Slug
light-over-columbia-il-1997-2d2de8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Columbia, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 55 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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