CaseFormation2002
Chicago, IL, USA
Two strange light formations flying over Chicago at night.
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-15
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5-7 seconds
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-chicago-il-2002-f3c2e9
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Chicago, IL in September 2002 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 98 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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