CaseSphere1998
Chicago (downtown), IL, USA
i was taking my kids to school in the morning,i was on highway 290 heading east when i noticed a shining chrome like object in the sky!
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-04
- Where
- Chicago (downtown), IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 to 3 min.
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-chicago-downtown-il-1998-a5e74a
In context
- Chicago (downtown), IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 66 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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