CaseOther1969
Rockford, IL, USA
A witness in Rockford, Illinois, described an object in August 1969 that resembled a vintage World War II-era aircraft but behaved unlike any known plane, during a three-minute sighting.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-08-15
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-rockford-il-1969-d0d74a
In context
- Rockford, IL shows up 133 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from Illinois in 1969.
- In the 1960s, 6.8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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