CaseLight2001

Rockford, IL, USA

Red balls of light that change to green before they disappeared

Report quality: High85/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 23 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2001-01-11
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
light-over-rockford-il-2001-e5c861
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2001

    IL flap 2001-01

    IL, USA

    26 sightings in geohash dp88 (IL) during 2001 peak months 1–1; top shape light

Local cluster

Local cluster

Rockford, IL logged 24 reports in the single month of January 2001.

Flap

IL flap 2001-01

This case is part of the IL flap 2001-01 — 26 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.

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In context

  • One of 133 documented reports from Rockford, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2001.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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