CaseFireball2012
Bartlett, IL, USA
Slow moving amber colored ball meets up with others and disappears.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-26
- Where
- Bartlett, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.995, -88.186 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bartlett-il-2012-850ac4
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Bartlett, IL has 18 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 270 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.