CaseFireball2001
Elgin, IL, USA
Neon Green Light Spoted in Elgin, IL. 60120 at 21:04 hours Monday, November 5th 2001
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-11-05
- Where
- Elgin, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1sec
- Geo
- 42.037, -88.281 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-elgin-il-2001-2fd590
In context
- Elgin, IL has 26 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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