Chicago, IL, USA
August 23, 2009 Seven Chicago Witnesses view strange Orange Red balls of light in night sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-23
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chicago-il-2009-ffd9d5
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 8 Chicago, IL reports filed in August 2009.
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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