CaseFireball1999
Mundelein, IL, USA
I saw a fireball, very low in the horizon, it was greenish in color with a tail that was white and green. It moved west to east
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Mundelein, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 42.263, -88.004 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mundelein-il-1999-d6c065
In context
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Mundelein, IL.
- This case is one of 111 Illinois reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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