CaseCircle2005

Chicago Heights, IL, USA

Three strange lights in the night sky on Sept. 24th, 2005. Were they were man-made or terrestrial?

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-24
Where
Chicago Heights, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 hour
Geo
41.506, -87.636 · exact
Slug
circle-over-chicago-heights-il-2005-4e5f4f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2005

    IL flap 2005-09

    IL, USA

    67 sightings in geohash dp3s (IL) during 2005 peak months 9–10; top shape light

Flap

IL flap 2005-09

This case is part of the IL flap 2005-09 — 67 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.

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In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from Chicago Heights, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 209 sightings in 2005.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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