CaseFireball2001
Rockford, IL, USA
Fireball in the sky around 911, being chased by the military!
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-09-13
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rockford-il-2001-2e6917
In context
- Rockford, IL shows up 133 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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