CaseFireball1998
Farina, IL, USA
((HOAX??)) Flaming eyeball floats across the horizon then a glow in sky makes a streak above us in a 60* angle
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 1998-03-15
- Where
- Farina, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 38.834, -88.772 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-farina-il-1998-15b2ee
In context
- Farina, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 66 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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