CaseFireball2002
Steeleville, IL, USA
BALL OF FIRE STREAKED DOWN FROM THE SKY.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-04-27
- Where
- Steeleville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 secs
- Geo
- 38.007, -89.658 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-steeleville-il-2002-16569c
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Steeleville, IL.
- This case is one of 98 Illinois reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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