UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Chicago, IL, USA

Notice an object over Chicago west of the moon, I waited an hour to see if it moved. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-02-01
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 hours
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
light-over-chicago-il-2017-d557ec
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

4 reports came out of Chicago, IL in February 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 93 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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