Chicago, IL, USA
30- to 50 flashing object in the sky not moving for a while and then slowly moving to the east . Two of them stayed behind for a little
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-09-14
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-chicago-il-2018-a0b3ea
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…
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 104 reports came from Illinois in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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