CaseFireball2002
New Salem, IL, USA
New Salem Red-Green Fireball Pre-Thanksgiving
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-11-23
- Where
- New Salem, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.708, -90.848 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-new-salem-il-2002-d1cd6e
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in New Salem, IL.
- This case is one of 98 Illinois reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.