CaseFireball2001
Mount Carmel, IL, USA
At an area just west of Mount Carmel Il, my wife and I both witnessed fire-like orange lights that varied in speed size and brilliance.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-04-06
- Where
- Mount Carmel, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 38.411, -87.761 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mount-carmel-il-2001-68cc64
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Mount Carmel, IL.
- This case is one of 140 Illinois reports filed in 2001.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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