CaseFireball1999
Elgin, IL, USA
Ok, I was pulling out of the bank parking lot with a friend, and when I was pulling out, in the sky i saw the object falling towards th
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Elgin, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 42.037, -88.281 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-elgin-il-1999-e8a089
In context
- Elgin, IL has 26 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 111 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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