CaseCircle2001
Rockford, IL, USA
9 round objects moving independently. Orange/Yellow in color
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 23 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-11
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 35 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-rockford-il-2001-39b664
Wave
Part of a wave
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.
Explore this area →In context
- One of 133 documented reports from Rockford, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2001.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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