Chicago, IL, USA
Low-flying craft with vapor trail spotted at nightfall.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-11-02
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-chicago-il-2005-d76680
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Chicago, IL reports filed in November 2005.
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 209 reports came from Illinois in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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