Chicago, IL, USA
Dark large object almost camouflaged by night sky, red balls of light underneath, moved slowly over my house, made no sound at all.
Report quality: High73/100
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 (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-06-06
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-chicago-il-2015-b7753a
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
5 reports came out of Chicago, IL in June 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 182 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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