CaseFireball1999
Rushville, IL, USA
orange light moving across sky and stops and exlpodes into a fireball and disappears
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-15
- Where
- Rushville, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 40.121, -90.563 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rushville-il-1999-a33175
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Rushville, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 111 sightings in 1999.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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