Chicago, IL, USA
It was 4:30 in the morning. Me and my friend were watching the Metorer shower. We noticed what we thought was a star in the sky was i
Report quality: High73/100
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
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-13
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-chicago-il-2009-94adaf
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
8 reports came out of Chicago, IL in August 2009 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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