Lake Zurich (sub of Chicago), IL, USA
A sudden extraordinary occurance in the sky...seeing at near range a ufo...traveling fast, low, horizontal as a ball and streak.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-09
- Where
- Lake Zurich (sub of Chicago), IL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1--2 seconds
- Geo
- 42.197, -88.093 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-lake-zurich-sub-of-chicago-il-2004-06008e
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
- Lake Zurich (sub of Chicago), IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 220 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.