CaseFireball2002
Lemont, IL, USA
big fire balls 20ft tall and 30ft wide. when they left they left burn marks.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-04-22
- Where
- Lemont, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minuts
- Geo
- 41.674, -88.002 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lemont-il-2002-97a458
In context
- Lemont, IL shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 98 reports came from Illinois in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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