UFOMYST
CaseCircle2009

Chicago, IL, USA

Circle light ball in a city,traveling perfectly straight and at the same height all the time.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-08
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
circle-over-chicago-il-2009-b6c16a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 8 Chicago, IL reports filed in August 2009.

In context

  • Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
  • 140 reports came from Illinois in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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