CaseUnknown1995
Arlington, IL, USA
Man repts. seeing "whole sky light up." Flash appeared to be from very high up, very bright, stationary, and cast shadows.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1995-07-24
- Where
- Arlington, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 sec.
- Geo
- 41.474, -89.249 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-arlington-il-1995-288d71
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Arlington, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 37 sightings in 1995.
Report
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