Lombard, IL, USA
While my friend and I were out sledding by my house we saw a comet-like object and eventually nine other similar objects appeared.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-01-13
- Where
- Lombard, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 41.880, -88.008 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lombard-il-1997-122556
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- One of 25 documented reports from Lombard, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 55 sightings in 1997.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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