CaseChanging2018

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
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 days

Report

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