Iola, IL, USA
((HOAX??)) A massive flaming/glowing eyeball floats by then min later a streak of light from space making a 60* angle above us.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 1997-12-15
- Where
- Iola, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10to20min
- Geo
- 38.834, -88.628 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-iola-il-1997-5630de
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Iola, IL.
- This case is one of 55 Illinois reports filed in 1997.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.