UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Chicago, IL, USA

On February 20, 2017 at 8:11 P.M. I ((name deleted)),((teenager)), saw multiple UFOs outside my window on my Southwest Airlines flight.

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: 761s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-20
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
12 minutes 41 seconds
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
light-over-chicago-il-2017-6cd158
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

February 2017 was a busy month for Chicago, IL: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 413 reports logged in Chicago, IL.
  • This case is one of 93 Illinois reports filed in 2017.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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