UFOMYST
CaseOther1977

Dekalb, IL, USA

I was 10 yrs old, it has bothered me since childhood as I am now 35...Please don't think I'm crazy but during the night of (summerish 7

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
1977-06-10
Where
Dekalb, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10min
Geo
41.929, -88.750 · exact
Slug
other-over-dekalb-il-1977-540cdb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

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In context

  • Dekalb, IL has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 13 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.5% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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