Chicago, IL, USA
UFO seen in Chicago.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-01
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 sec
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-chicago-il-2009-e98e2b
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 8 Chicago, IL reports filed in August 2009.
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2009.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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.