UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Carlinville, IL, USA

In the night, I was awoken by the prescence of a groteque, glowing ship, with a glow as so sinister in a cloak of shadows IT was with.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-20
Where
Carlinville, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1 hour
Geo
39.280, -89.882 · exact
Slug
other-over-carlinville-il-1997-b2b9d4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Carlinville, IL has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 55 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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