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UFO sightings in Carbondale, Illinois

There are 3 civilian UFO sighting reports from Carbondale, Illinois in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1998 to 2006. That is 2% of the 147 reports from Illinois, the fifth most of any place in the state. The shapes witnesses reported most were formation (1), sphere (1) and triangle (1).

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Sighting reports from Carbondale

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18 Oct 2006 · 22:00Triangle· 15 s
Apparent fixed wing aircraft flying at a few thousand feet making no noise.
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17 Oct 2004 · 23:00Formation· 23 min
there were 3 lignst forming a horizomtal line
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16 Oct 1998 · 21:55Sphere· 5 s
I saw a spherical object at a distance. It had a slight green glow. It just appeared, then took off in a northeast direction very qui
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Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.

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