UFOMYST
CaseFireball2014

Crete, IL, USA

While facing southern night sky a blue neon fireball passed by, from east going west. I was able to observed it for 10 seconds in clear

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-23
Where
Crete, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.444, -87.631 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-crete-il-2014-f62780
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Crete, IL has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 173 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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