CaseDiamond2001
Chicago, IL, USA
Diamond shaped object, orange in color with small points of light surrounding the main body
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 105s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-05
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1.5 - 2 min
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-chicago-il-2001-0d246e
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Chicago, IL reports filed in August 2001.
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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