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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