CaseOther1972
Chicago, IL, USA
We saw a strange looking object up in the sky near Midway Airport
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-03-08
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-chicago-il-1972-416ef2
In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 1972 brought 10 reports from Illinois.
- The 1970s skewed 6.5% other reports; the archive-wide figure 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.