CaseFireball2002
Decatur (near), IL, USA
7 Shooting stars in sky near Decatur
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-07
- Where
- Decatur (near), IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- 39.840, -88.955 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-decatur-near-il-2002-ca561b
In context
- Decatur (near), IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 98 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% 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.