CaseFireball1999
Aurora, IL, USA
Large "meteor". Greenish color at head. Sparkling tail, golden-flecked. Traveling in arching trajectory West to East out of sight.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Aurora, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7-10 sec.
- Geo
- 41.761, -88.320 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-aurora-il-1999-c82ed8
In context
- One of 34 documented reports from Aurora, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 111 sightings in 1999.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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