CaseLight1999
Granite City, IL, USA
One large, orangeish light seen initially during thunder storm. Another similar light appeared a good distance away.
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-08
- Where
- Granite City, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Geo
- 38.701, -90.149 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-granite-city-il-1999-4cecae
In context
- Granite City, IL shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 111 reports came from Illinois in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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