CaseFireball2012
Bloomington, IL, USA
Orange Ball Rising Above Town At 45 Degree Angle
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-03-17
- Where
- Bloomington, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 Seconds
- Geo
- 40.484, -88.994 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bloomington-il-2012-8a81e6
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Local cluster
Local cluster
Bloomington, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of March 2012.
In context
- One of 36 documented reports from Bloomington, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 270 sightings in 2012.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
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