UFOMYST
CaseOther1952

Chicago, IL, USA

A radar operator near Chicago reported tracking an unidentified object moving at an extreme reported speed for about 45 seconds in December 1952.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (145 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-12-06
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
45 sec.
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
other-over-chicago-il-1952-0774ea
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round

    United States, focal point Washington D.C.

    The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Illinois in 1952.
  • In the 1950s, 6.1% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.