CaseDisk1964
Chicago, IL, USA
A witness in Chicago, Illinois reported a disk-shaped object hovering above a highway on July 9, 1964, in a sighting lasting about 30 seconds.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (142 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1964-07-09
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-chicago-il-1964-1160c9
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 10 sightings in 1964.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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