UFOMYST
CaseOval1973

Peoria, IL, USA

Saw a U.F.O. over backyard at very close proximity to house located across from airport. Saw first hand object and passengers inside.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-05-23
Where
Peoria, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.694, -89.589 · exact
Slug
oval-over-peoria-il-1973-81f5f1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

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In context

  • Peoria, IL shows up 40 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Illinois in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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