CaseLight2001
Chicago, IL, USA
Bright, very big, white light over Chicago
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-09-16
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- about 1 min.
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-chicago-il-2001-159b6a
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2001.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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