CaseFireball1979
Dekalb, IL, USA
Firesball hovering over cornfeild,,looks like red/orande with molten dribble..goes back & forth across field and then rises and novas
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-08-20
- Where
- Dekalb, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.929, -88.750 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-dekalb-il-1979-510730
In context
- Dekalb, IL shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from Illinois in 1979.
- In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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