Chicago, IL, USA
Object hovered over electric transformer for a few minutes, then quietly move over us. No sound. Aprox size of basketball held at arms
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 3900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-02-15
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes to 1 hr
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chicago-il-1965-147c1b
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Illinois in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.