Chicago, IL, USA
brief expansion of a wand of light, that dissapeared as quickly as it appeared.
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-12
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- less than 1 second
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-chicago-il-2006-a65428
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
August 2006 was a busy month for Chicago, IL: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 413 reports logged in Chicago, IL.
- This case is one of 144 Illinois reports filed in 2006.
- Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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