CaseOval1968

Chicago, IL, USA

What we saw had no wings, tail or struts. It’s fuselage was elliptical in shape with a blunted nose and tail.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1968-06-01
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
oval-over-chicago-il-1968-aa19dd

In context

  • Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
  • 1968 brought 6 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1960s skewed 6.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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