CaseFireball2002
Chicago, IL, USA
fireball in Chgo. western skies
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-13
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 sec.
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chicago-il-2002-458f3b
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In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 98 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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