CaseFlash2001
Northbrook, IL, USA
standing in the field west of wood oaks jr. highschool, I saw,in the south, 1ball of light (resembling the shape of a roman candle, but
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-30
- Where
- Northbrook, IL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 4 sec.
- Geo
- 42.128, -87.829 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-northbrook-il-2001-bf9394
In context
- Northbrook, IL has 38 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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