Chicago, IL, USA
A large, green ball of fire fell out of the sky over Chicago, viewed from just North of the city
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-11-03
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chicago-il-2005-6afdf4
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Chicago, IL in November 2005 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 209 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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