Chicago, IL, USA
A witness in Chicago, Illinois reported a metallic, silver, round, saucer-shaped object, observed for about 45 minutes in April 1952.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-04-15
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- approx: 45 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-chicago-il-1952-81f797
Part of a wave
The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round
United States, focal point Washington D.C.
The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Illinois in 1952.
- In the 1950s, 28.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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