CaseOther1998
Des Plaines, IL, USA
Seen objeck going from N-E to S-W. Looked Like a black hourglass and was moveing up and doun in and out of clouds.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-15
- Where
- Des Plaines, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.033, -87.883 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-des-plaines-il-1998-bcb55d
In context
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Des Plaines, IL.
- This case is one of 66 Illinois reports filed in 1998.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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