CaseFireball1999
Oakbrook, IL, USA
a large bright light, green in color with a tail with 2 smaller balls in the tale, floating from east to west below the planes circling
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Oakbrook, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.833, -87.929 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-oakbrook-il-1999-13b973
In context
- Oakbrook, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 111 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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