CaseFireball2002
Hoffman Estates, IL, USA
Orange fireball across the sky over Hoffman Estates IL
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-06-26
- Where
- Hoffman Estates, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 42.043, -88.080 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hoffman-estates-il-2002-ce77a8
In context
- One of 9 documented reports from Hoffman Estates, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 98 sightings in 2002.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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