Chicago, IL, USA
Large craft, triangular in the front/middle section, wide across with an arrowhead/chevron look, fading in/out of sky, lights on bottom
Report quality: High73/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-06-06
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-chicago-il-2015-393c7d
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
June 2015 was a busy month for Chicago, IL: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 413 reports logged in Chicago, IL.
- This case is one of 182 Illinois reports filed in 2015.
- Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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