Chicago, IL, USA
On October 21, 2007 I observed 2 UFO's in Chicago's northern suburbs at 8p.m..
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-10-21
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-chicago-il-2007-8a460b
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…
Local cluster
Chicago, IL logged 4 reports in the single month of October 2007.
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 181 sightings in 2007.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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