CaseDiamond2000
Rockford, IL, USA
5 kite shaped(larger than stars)orangelights in western sky Stationary 15 mins faded gold->white, then 3 more rose slowly from N-> SW
Report quality: High73/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-03-10
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-rockford-il-2000-39ec1e
Local cluster
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Rockford, IL in March 2000 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Rockford, IL has 133 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 96 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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