CaseFormation2001
Rockford, IL, USA
For about three minutes, we watched a formation of orangish lights all taking turns twinkling, then fading out.
Report quality: High77/100
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
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-03-18
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- about 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-rockford-il-2001-21ebac
Local cluster
Local cluster
March 2001 was a busy month for Rockford, IL: 7 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 133 reports logged in Rockford, IL.
- This case is one of 140 Illinois reports filed in 2001.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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