CaseFireball1999
Chicago, IL, USA
probably the biggest, brightest metour ive ever seen. green, broke into 10+pieces,2-3 times longer than halebopp,hit lake mich? very im
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: 52s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 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
- 45-60 sec
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chicago-il-1999-bb36c5
Local cluster
Local cluster
Chicago, IL logged 6 reports in the single month of November 1999.
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 111 sightings in 1999.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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