CaseFlash2002
Vernon Hills, IL, USA
STREAK OF FIRE IN AFTERNOON SKY.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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 (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-09
- Where
- Vernon Hills, IL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 SECONDS
- Geo
- 42.219, -87.980 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-vernon-hills-il-2002-efa797
In context
- Vernon Hills, IL has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 98 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.