CaseOther1989

Chicago, IL, USA

February 1989 Roger's Park Chicago Northside 10PM -12:15AM Very Bright Lights/Bell Shape Craft

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: 8100s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-02-11
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 hours and 15 minutes
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
other-over-chicago-il-1989-2d045a
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 14 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1980s skewed 9.1% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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