UFOMYST
CaseDisk2019

Chicago, IL, USA

Was looking for the low clouds to move so I could take a picture of the full moon at 11:25pm CST. I saw a large,low-flying disc flying

Report quality: High73/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-10-13
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
disk-over-chicago-il-2019-2aec46
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Chicago, IL reports filed in October 2019.

In context

  • Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
  • 166 reports came from Illinois in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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