CaseSphere2000
Rockford, IL, USA
5 objects in formation, disappeared, 4 more appeared in different formation
Report quality: High85/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 9 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-02-16
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rockford-il-2000-e8d3cf
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
Rockford, IL logged 14 reports in the single month of February 2000.
Flap
IL flap 2000-02
This case is part of the IL flap 2000-02 — 15 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.
Explore this area →In context
- One of 133 documented reports from Rockford, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 96 sightings in 2000.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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