Sullivan, IL, USA
Near Sullivan, Illinois on August 15, 1965, witnesses reported a round white light that swooped down at close range, paused, then sped away within about ten seconds.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (165 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-15
- Where
- Sullivan, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 39.599, -88.608 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sullivan-il-1965-be7110
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Sullivan, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 7 sightings in 1965.
- Light sightings ran at 11.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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