CaseOther2001
Chicago, IL, USA
square bright object surrounded by faint red lights seen over chicago
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-05
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1 to 2 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-chicago-il-2001-898cf7
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Chicago, IL in August 2001 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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