CaseSphere1987
Rockford, IL, USA
Huge Orange Shaped sphere hovering about the ground about 3 feet.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-04-22
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 Mins
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rockford-il-1987-ac971a
In context
- One of 133 documented reports from Rockford, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 10 sightings in 1987.
- Sphere sightings ran at 8.1% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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