CaseFireball2004
Orland Hills, IL, USA
Fire balls in the sky, form triangle, lasted 5 minutes. Second Sighting 45 minutes later lasted 5 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-31
- Where
- Orland Hills, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.585, -87.843 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-orland-hills-il-2004-cefa59
Wave
Part of a wave
IL flap 2004-10
IL, USA
77 sightings in geohash dp3s (IL) during 2004 peak months 10–10; top shape light
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Orland Hills, IL reports filed in October 2004.
Flap
IL flap 2004-10
This report belongs to the IL flap 2004-10 — 77 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Orland Hills, IL shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 220 reports came from Illinois in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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