CaseFireball1998

Bedford Park, IL, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Bedford Park, IL, USA
Start: 1998-04-24
Location: Bedford Park, IL, USA

A glowing green sphere, with a white rectangular light behind it, emerged and then streaked westwardly. As it streaked it slightly gre

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: 4s (an atypical range)
Detailed witness text (134 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1998-04-24
Where: Bedford Park, IL, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 3-5 seconds
Geo: 41.763, -87.800 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-bedford-park-il-1998-8fef40

In context

Bedford Park, IL shows up 3 times across the archive.
66 reports came from Illinois in 1998.
In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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