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UFO sightings in Jacksonville, Illinois

There are 3 civilian UFO sighting reports from Jacksonville, Illinois in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1959 to 1998. That is 2% of the 147 reports from Illinois, the seventh most of any place in the state. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (1) and sphere (1).

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Sighting reports from Jacksonville

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18 Oct 1998 · 09:30Orb· 10 h 30 min
First one appeared in the eastern sky and moved slowly south, about 10 minutes later another light appeared in the same spot the first
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1 Oct 1989 · 20:00Sphere· 5 min
Three gold circle UFOs fly in formation, warp drive away and disappear.
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1 Oct 1959 · 19:00Other· 1 min
Late 1959, bright lights from a hovering object of unknown shape making a zed-zid zed-zid electrical sound.
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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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