CaseCircle2000

Rockford, IL, USA

8 orange lights in 2 clusters of 3 and 1 moving very slowly west to east then disappearing

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 9 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2000-02-16
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10-15mins
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rockford-il-2000-c6a716
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2000

    IL flap 2000-02

    IL, USA

    15 sightings in geohash dp88 (IL) during 2000 peak months 2–2; top shape circle

Local cluster

Local cluster

Rockford, IL logged 14 reports in the single month of February 2000.

Flap

IL flap 2000-02

This case is part of the IL flap 2000-02 — 15 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 96 sightings in 2000.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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