CaseFireball1999
Rochelle, IL, USA
While driving into Rochelle...saw a glowing ball of light falling over a cornfield and disappearing into a V-Shaped opening in the sky.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-31
- Where
- Rochelle, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 41.924, -89.069 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rochelle-il-1999-890e7b
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Rochelle, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 111 sightings in 1999.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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