CaseFireball1999
Morton Grove, IL, USA
I to saw what looked like a comet at about 12:30 PM. I was out on the drive way with a friend large comet with a long tail. It was very
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-07-13
- Where
- Morton Grove, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 sec.
- Geo
- 42.041, -87.783 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-morton-grove-il-1999-06fa61
In context
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Morton Grove, IL.
- This case is one of 111 Illinois reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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