CaseFireball2001
Collinsville, IL, USA
Was on my backporch smoking a cigarette when all of sudden a dime size at arms lenght fireball appeared in North East skies.A very bril
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-03-12
- Where
- Collinsville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 sec.
- Geo
- 38.670, -89.985 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-collinsville-il-2001-fb5377
In context
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Collinsville, IL.
- This case is one of 140 Illinois reports filed in 2001.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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