CaseFireball2000
Rockford, IL, USA
There were 5 orangeish fireballs , 3 of the objects were in a triangular flight pattern. The other 2 were lower and to the left, almost
Report quality: High89/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 9 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-02-16
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rockford-il-2000-d14247
Wave
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
Local cluster
February 2000 was a busy month for Rockford, IL: 14 separate reports.
Flap
IL flap 2000-02
One of 15 sightings that make up the IL flap 2000-02.
Explore this area →In context
- This is one of 133 reports logged in Rockford, IL.
- This case is one of 96 Illinois reports filed in 2000.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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