CaseSphere2001
Chicago, IL, USA
A pinkish brown sphere with sporatic lights crosses the sky at a medium steady pace.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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 (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-05
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3-5 min.
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-chicago-il-2001-1cf096
Local cluster
Local cluster
Chicago, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2001.
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2001.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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