UFOMYST
CaseCircle2019

Chicago, IL, USA

I saw a very big circle like thing in the sky with very strong lights in purple lavender pink color flashing very strong over trees rig

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-12-22
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 min
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
circle-over-chicago-il-2019-3b10bb
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Chicago, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2019.

In context

  • One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 166 sightings in 2019.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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