CaseSphere2001
Joliet, IL, USA
Fifty foot across sphere about 60 feet above a busy street in a bright sunny day. but hidden in the trees of a park and golf course
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-17
- Where
- Joliet, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 Minutes
- Geo
- 41.525, -88.083 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-joliet-il-2001-949968
In context
- Joliet, IL has 33 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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