CaseFireball2011

Jerseyville, IL, USA

Red fireball crashing into a field

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-11-26
Where
Jerseyville, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 mins
Geo
39.120, -90.328 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-jerseyville-il-2011-c61812
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

  • Jerseyville, IL has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 219 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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