Lewistown, IL, USA
Red and white lights on flying objects that appeared to be rotating. Lights disappeared and reappeared. ((anonymous report))
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-04-16
- Where
- Lewistown, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.393, -90.155 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-lewistown-il-2019-a51bc8
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Lewistown, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 166 sightings in 2019.
Report
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