CaseLight1998
Mt Sterling, IL, USA
8/21-8/27 Approx. 50 lights in south sky moving up & down, & side to side.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-21
- Where
- Mt Sterling, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 39.987, -90.763 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-mt-sterling-il-1998-c0c2f8
In context
- Mt Sterling, IL has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 66 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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