Rockford, IL, USA
my wife and I saw a bright orange ball decending out of the east then leveling off then going about half a block then turning to the no
Report quality: High73/100
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
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-02-12
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15min
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rockford-il-2000-442b94
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 14 Rockford, IL reports filed in February 2000.
IL flap 2000-02
This report belongs to the IL flap 2000-02 — 15 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Rockford, IL shows up 133 times across the archive.
- 96 reports came from Illinois in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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