CaseUnknown1996
Bath, IL, USA
Woman, children, neighbors witness "big orange ball of light." Obj. dims, then reappears w/ red blinking light. Moves off fast.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-03-01
- Where
- Bath, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.193, -90.141 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-bath-il-1996-862eab
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Bath, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 20 sightings in 1996.
Report
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