CaseFireball1999
Sycamore, IL, USA
Witness described a fireball like object with a large multi-colored head (basketball or two) with a large tail extending behind it 10 h
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Sycamore, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- Appox 2-4 min
- Geo
- 41.989, -88.687 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sycamore-il-1999-bb4735
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Sycamore, IL.
- This case is one of 111 Illinois reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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