Mundelein, IL, USA
Observed two orange/red balls cross the sky from NE to SW one after the other.
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-05-26
- Where
- Mundelein, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 42.263, -88.004 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mundelein-il-2013-07f4e0
Part of a wave
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
- Mundelein, IL shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 173 reports came from Illinois in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.