CaseFireball2001
Rockford, IL, USA
Eight golden/orange objects hovering above Rockford.
Report quality: High74/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-02-10
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rockford-il-2001-9ec3dc
Local cluster
Local cluster
6 reports came out of Rockford, IL in February 2001 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Rockford, IL has 133 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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