UFOMYST
CaseFireball2011

Manhattan, IL, USA

Orange fireball steadily moves across sky then stops for 5 minutes (not UFO, a firework caused this!)

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-02
Where
Manhattan, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
41.423, -87.986 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-manhattan-il-2011-fe4b76
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Manhattan, IL has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 219 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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