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
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.
Explore this area →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 daysReport
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