UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Des Plaines, IL, USA

5 fireballs in the sky over Des Plaines/Glenview, Illinois.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-21
Where
Des Plaines, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
42.033, -87.883 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-des-plaines-il-2016-fcda86
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Des Plaines, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 156 sightings in 2016.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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