CaseFireball2010
Peoria/Canton (between), IL, USA
((HOAX??)) 13 orange fireballs
Report quality: Low18/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (19 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2010-07-08
- Where
- Peoria/Canton (between), IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 min
- Geo
- 40.694, -89.589 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-peoria-canton-between-il-2010-2b27c1
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Peoria/Canton (between), IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 208 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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.