CaseOval2001
Chicago, IL, USA
I saw 3-4 gray oval-shaped objects moving in the morning sky; one blinking orangish lights.
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-13
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 6 minutes - I had to then
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chicago-il-2001-6b2cfb
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Chicago, IL in January 2001 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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