CaseFireball2000
Orland Park, IL, USA
Unexplained bright white lights over Southwest Cook County IL
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-02-21
- Where
- Orland Park, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- Approx 10 Min.
- Geo
- 41.630, -87.854 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-orland-park-il-2000-2ac2d3
In context
- Orland Park, IL shows up 45 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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