CaseDisk2010

Chicago Ridge, IL, USA

The disc was encircled by lights and hovered only one hundred feet above the ground.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-01
Where
Chicago Ridge, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
minute
Geo
41.701, -87.779 · exact
Slug
disk-over-chicago-ridge-il-2010-08105d
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…

In context

  • Chicago Ridge, IL has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 208 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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