CaseFireball1999
Chicago, IL, USA
Green fireball followed by tail of red going northeast across sky
Report quality: High77/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chicago-il-1999-3ef978
Local cluster
Local cluster
6 reports came out of Chicago, IL in November 1999 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 111 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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