UFOMYST
CaseFlash2006

Chicago, IL, USA

Chicago Flash of Light

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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)
  • Brief witness text (22 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-09-28
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
flash-over-chicago-il-2006-e07041
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 →

In context

  • Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
  • 144 reports came from Illinois in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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