CaseLight1955
Rantoul, IL, USA
We had fallen out to the parking lot awaiting marching orders to go to (chow) it was still dark and we saw a light approaching from the
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1955-06-17
- Where
- Rantoul, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 Minutes
- Geo
- 40.308, -88.156 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rantoul-il-1955-1ad45c
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Rantoul, IL.
- This case is one of 1 Illinois reports filed in 1955.
- Light craft made up 11.5% of 1950s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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