CaseFlash2003
Niles, IL, USA
Aura ufo near chicago
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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 (21 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-07-05
- Where
- Niles, IL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.019, -87.803 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-niles-il-2003-28920f
In context
- Niles, IL shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from Illinois in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate 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.