UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Chicago, IL, USA

This was NOT a firework.

Report quality: Moderate60/100

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
  • Brief witness text (24 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2015-07-04
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Not sure
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-chicago-il-2015-3e5fbf
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

5 reports came out of Chicago, IL in July 2015 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 182 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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