CaseFireball1999
Chicago, IL, USA
saw a bright white light, what appeared to be a type of firework missile, but this was different because of the intense brightness and
Report quality: High81/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 sec.
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chicago-il-1999-8820d3
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Chicago, IL reports filed in November 1999.
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 111 reports came from Illinois in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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