CaseFlash2008
Chicago, IL, USA
A UFO only in that the phenomena is currently unidentified.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-09
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- A few seconds
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-chicago-il-2008-4b6b41
Wave
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…
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 167 sightings in 2008.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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