Chicago, IL, USA
Observed 1 big obj. tailed by 2 smaller objects less then a mi. of L. Michigan, they proceed inland disappear. ((anonymous report))
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-14
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-chicago-il-2017-c0478c
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 93 sightings in 2017.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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