1973 · Illinois
1973 reported encounter
8–9 ft heavy creamy-white biped in daylight
Historical Witness
Illinois 1973 primary witness
Illinois1973
Location archiveIllinois
Profile overview
At a glance
Encounter period1973
RegionIllinois
Direct visualYes
Repeat / ongoingNo
Co-witness / corroborationYes – cousin/friends
Primary sourceBFRO
Exact locators0
Media / transcript records0
Encounter & observations
The encounter
Context
Later medical neurologist; outdoor experience: Not stated.
What the witness reported
- 8–9 ft heavy creamy-white biped in daylight
Sources & changes
Source chronology
1973
Reported encounter period
Illinois. 8–9 ft heavy creamy-white biped in daylight
Later BFRO investigation
Research assessment
Research assessment
Corroboration & evidence
Yes – cousin/friends. This is not coded as independent testimony unless the co-witness's own source is recovered.
Two witnesses later contacted by investigator. Evidence authenticity and testimony are evaluated separately.
Documentary strengths
- Already qualified for the Observatory's public baseline witness corpus.
- Recoverable source URL is preserved.
- The source matrix codes a reported direct visual.
Limitations / controls
- No exact source locator has yet been entered for this profile.
- Current profile is primarily dependent on one entered source layer.
- Reported co-witness information is not automatically independent corroboration.
What would improve the record
- Recover an exact timestamp/page/paragraph locator.
- Search for earlier or independent firsthand source layers.
- Recover the co-witness's own statement where possible.
- A dedicated case record may be added if the event details can be resolved from public sources.
Source-linked testimony
Witness dossier
Only explicitly recorded relationships appear here. Links and recordings document attributed material; they do not independently corroborate an encounter.
Documentation at a glance
- Linked media records
- 1
- Named media providers
- 1
- Associated case records
- 0
These are documented catalog links, not a confidence score or a count of independent corroborating accounts.
Associated cases
No public case relationship is explicitly established in the current canonical graph.
Testimony and related media
Source-backed account summaries
No source-verified narrative summaries are currently available for the linked media. Witness claims will not be reconstructed from titles or search snippets.
Media source audit
- Illinois 1973 primary witness — BFRO report
- Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗
Documented source chronology
No exact publication dates are established in the currently linked canonical media. The chronology remains unresolved rather than inferred.
Research limits
Chronology, verification and source interpretation remain governed by each canonical record. No additional claim is inferred from the relationship graph.