UFOMYST
CaseDisk2005

Chicago (in-flight sighting), IL, USA

Hazy clear disc with a Christmas tree ball in the middle above Chicago

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-06-15
Where
Chicago (in-flight sighting), IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1 second
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
disk-over-chicago-in-flight-sighting-il-2005-7ce3c7
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 →

In context

  • Chicago (in-flight sighting), IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 209 reports came from Illinois in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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