UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1977

Ridgway, IL, USA

rectangular in shape with a dimly glowing red globe on each end, hovering at 150 ft. , football field sized

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-03-20
Where
Ridgway, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 min
Geo
37.799, -88.261 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-ridgway-il-1977-d9850c
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Ridgway, IL has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 13 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1970s skewed 2.3% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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