CaseFireball1999
Smithton, IL, USA
Driving home, Saw a white meteor falling in NW sky. Shortly afterward the entire electrical system in the car went dead for a split sec
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-12-11
- Where
- Smithton, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 38.409, -89.992 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-smithton-il-1999-362358
In context
- Smithton, IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 111 reports came from Illinois in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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