CaseCircle2000

Rock Island, IL, USA

Green fireball in the ENE, visible from about 40 degrees above the horizon to about 5 degrees, seemed to fall straight toward the groun

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2000-01-07
Where
Rock Island, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
41.509, -90.579 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rock-island-il-2000-aa35e2

In context

  • Rock Island, IL has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2000 brought 96 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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