CaseFormation2001
Rockford, IL, USA
9-11 orange-red lights in formation appear twice in 1 hour which can remain perfectly still then travel exceedingly fast.
Report quality: High81/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-02-10
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 45 min
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-rockford-il-2001-a68ada
Local cluster
Local cluster
6 reports came out of Rockford, IL in February 2001 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Rockford, IL has 133 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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