UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Glenview, IL, USA

I observed a large bright green glowing object fall to earth a few minutes ago. I had just looked up out the window, which faces east

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-08
Where
Glenview, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
42.070, -87.788 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-glenview-il-2016-ec249e
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…

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In context

  • Glenview, IL has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 156 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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