Caserectangle1998
West Chicago, IL, USA
We were standing in my driveway and this enormous thing flew over my house about 100 feet in the air. It was a dark mass in the sky wi
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-12
- Where
- West Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- rectangle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.885, -88.204 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-west-chicago-il-1998-ba791c
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in West Chicago, IL.
- This case is one of 66 Illinois reports filed in 1998.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.4% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.