Oak Lawn, IL, USA
V-formation 5 silver disks with 1 trailing behind, size of small peas high & fast heading NE bypassing Chicago to Indiana
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1946-09-12
- Where
- Oak Lawn, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 41.711, -87.758 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-oak-lawn-il-1946-a04b10
Part of a wave
The Ghost Rockets
Scandinavia (Sweden foremost), spreading across Europe
One year after WWII, projectile-like objects crossed Scandinavian skies, some reportedly crashing into lakes; Swedish military dredging found nothing. With Soviet-occupied Peenemünde nearby, the assumption was Russian…
In context
- One of 51 documented reports from Oak Lawn, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 1 sightings in 1946.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.9% during the 1940s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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