CaseCircle2001
Rockford, IL, USA
Looking up I observed a formation of 5objects that appeared to be circular & were orange in color moving in a northeasternly direction.
Report quality: High89/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 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
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-rockford-il-2001-4470c1
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
24 reports came out of Rockford, IL in January 2001 alone — a local cluster.
Flap
IL flap 2001-01
Logged as part of the IL flap 2001-01, a 26-report space-time cluster.
Explore this area →In context
- Rockford, IL has 133 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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