CaseFireball2009

Good Hope, IL, USA

Green Fireball Sighted in Western Illinois

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-28
Where
Good Hope, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
40.558, -90.673 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-good-hope-il-2009-c3e0e0
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…

In context

  • Good Hope, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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