CaseOval2001
Bloomington, IL, USA
UFO south of Bloomington, IL by Randolph Grain Elevator.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-22
- Where
- Bloomington, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.484, -88.994 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-bloomington-il-2001-afcc90
In context
- Bloomington, IL shows up 36 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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