CaseLight1998
Jacksonville, IL, USA
First one appeared in the eastern sky and moved slowly south, about 10 minutes later another light appeared in the same spot the first
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-18
- Where
- Jacksonville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 1/2 hours
- Geo
- 39.734, -90.229 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-jacksonville-il-1998-165347
In context
- One of 11 documented reports from Jacksonville, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 66 sightings in 1998.
- Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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