CaseLight1999
Trenton, IL, USA
My friend and I were coming home from seeing The Green Mile when I noticed a brilliant light changing colors in northern sky.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-12-20
- Where
- Trenton, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-5 min.
- Geo
- 38.606, -89.682 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-trenton-il-1999-6b7fea
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Trenton, IL.
- This case is one of 111 Illinois reports filed in 1999.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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