Rockford, IL, USA
14 all together, then they separated and the one I remember most followed East State Street in an easterly direction, approx. 2000 ft
Report quality: High89/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 23 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-11
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- several minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-rockford-il-2001-fbf9a2
Part of a wave
IL flap 2001-01
IL, USA
26 sightings in geohash dp88 (IL) during 2001 peak months 1–1; top shape light
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 24 Rockford, IL reports filed in January 2001.
IL flap 2001-01
This report belongs to the IL flap 2001-01 — 26 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Rockford, IL shows up 133 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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