CaseSphere2001
Rockford, IL, USA
24 total golden colored, orbed lights in configurations similar to the big dipper moving slowly from NW to East
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 23 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-11
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rockford-il-2001-09b2aa
Wave
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
Local cluster
24 reports came out of Rockford, IL in January 2001 alone — a local cluster.
Flap
IL flap 2001-01
Logged as part of the IL flap 2001-01, a 26-report space-time cluster.
Explore this area →In context
- Rockford, IL has 133 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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