CaseFireball2006
Elgin, IL, USA
orange fireball ball in east sky glowed for 2-3 minutes at about 4:17-4:20
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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- Duration parsed: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-03-08
- Where
- Elgin, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 min
- Geo
- 42.037, -88.281 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-elgin-il-2006-2af699
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In context
- One of 26 documented reports from Elgin, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 144 sightings in 2006.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
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