UFOMYST
CaseFireball2011

Rockford, IL, USA

I was with a few friends outside of a friend's house in their driveway at about 11:00 pm. While socializing, I saw what I thought to be

Report quality: High73/100

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  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-09-08
Where
Rockford, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.271, -89.094 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-rockford-il-2011-e9411b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Rockford, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2011.

In context

  • One of 133 documented reports from Rockford, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 219 sightings in 2011.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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