Rockford, IL, USA
While out for a family night we observed five orange glowing objects three times larger than visible stars flying in formation and doin
Report quality: High73/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-02-11
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rockford-il-2000-719286
Part of a wave
IL flap 2000-02
IL, USA
15 sightings in geohash dp88 (IL) during 2000 peak months 2–2; top shape circle
Local cluster
Rockford, IL logged 14 reports in the single month of February 2000.
IL flap 2000-02
This case is part of the IL flap 2000-02 — 15 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.
Explore this area →In context
- One of 133 documented reports from Rockford, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 96 sightings in 2000.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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