UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2009

Carbondale, IL, USA

3 bright lights over southern IL ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of ISS and Shuttle. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-08
Where
Carbondale, IL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
37.727, -89.217 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-carbondale-il-2009-7be2ad
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 14 documented reports from Carbondale, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2009.

Report

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