UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

East Alton, IL, USA

We saw a bright blue-green object streak across the southern sky at a great rate of speed,travelling from east to west.

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
East Alton, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 - 7 seconds
Geo
38.880, -90.111 · exact
Slug
light-over-east-alton-il-1997-b5aeb2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • East Alton, IL shows up 2 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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