CaseFireball2001
Batavia, IL, USA
My mother and I were driving home from the last choir concert of the year when I was in 8th Grade...we came up to the corner just befor
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-04-15
- Where
- Batavia, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -88.313 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-batavia-il-2001-7dae57
In context
- One of 13 documented reports from Batavia, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2001.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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