CaseSphere2000
Chicago, IL, USA
"glass" sphere tracking plane en route to Chicago Airport - April 2000
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-04-01
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20-30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-chicago-il-2000-4bf2e6
In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 96 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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