CaseFireball1999
Burtons Bridge, IL, USA
Horizon to horizon in 10 seconds. Fireball (short tail & enormous vapor trail).
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Burtons Bridge, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 42.280, -88.229 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-burtons-bridge-il-1999-b7e21f
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Burtons Bridge, 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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