CaseFireball2003
Rochelle, IL, USA
Observed a green fireball with white and green flames track across the western sky going from north to south.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-09-04
- Where
- Rochelle, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.924, -89.069 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rochelle-il-2003-486141
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Rochelle, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 92 sightings in 2003.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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