CaseFireball2000
Galesburg, IL, USA
Event was televised on the 10 PM news. A man had video footage of the event north of Galesburg. Many orange lights were seen going on
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-01-13
- Where
- Galesburg, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.948, -90.371 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-galesburg-il-2000-291134
In context
- Galesburg, IL shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 96 reports came from Illinois in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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