CaseFireball1998
Lincolnshire, IL, USA
Red fireball travelling south to north with tail 4 or 5 times size of object. Lasted 7 seconds then winked out.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-10
- Where
- Lincolnshire, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 42.190, -87.908 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lincolnshire-il-1998-2d1bde
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Lincolnshire, IL.
- This case is one of 66 Illinois reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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