CaseSphere1998
Hodgkins, IL, USA
What I saw was purely unexpected, the sun had just set and I was sitting in my car when I noticed one plane being followed by what look
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-15
- Where
- Hodgkins, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2minutes
- Geo
- 41.769, -87.858 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-hodgkins-il-1998-7689c2
In context
- Hodgkins, IL has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 66 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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