CaseOval2001
Crete, IL, USA
I WAS A NONE BELELIEVER TILL THIS HAPPENED, I WAS IN TOTAL AWE OF HOW A OBJECT OF IT'S SIZE MOVED AND CHANGED DIRECTION SO FAST.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-09-01
- Where
- Crete, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 MINUTES
- Geo
- 41.444, -87.631 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-crete-il-2001-9f8374
In context
- One of 12 documented reports from Crete, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2001.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.