UFOMYST
CaseFireball2019

Waukegan, IL, USA

Bright green pinpoint light moving very fast in the sky

Report quality: Moderate54/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-12-26
Where
Waukegan, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
42.364, -87.845 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-waukegan-il-2019-295fae
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 15 reports logged in Waukegan, IL.
  • This case is one of 166 Illinois reports filed in 2019.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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