CaseFormation2000
Rockford, IL, USA
Saw 5 orange lights in the sky viewed them for awhile they formed the big dipper then dimmed out
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-02-11
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-rockford-il-2000-55ed71
Wave
Part of a wave
IL flap 2000-02
IL, USA
15 sightings in geohash dp88 (IL) during 2000 peak months 2–2; top shape circle
Local cluster
Local cluster
14 reports came out of Rockford, IL in February 2000 alone — a local cluster.
Flap
IL flap 2000-02
Logged as part of the IL flap 2000-02, a 15-report space-time cluster.
Explore this area →In context
- Rockford, IL has 133 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 96 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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.