CaseChevron2015

Chicago, IL, USA

Light high above Chicago with pulsing red lights, 2 chevron shaped craft with red lights no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Arcturus. PD))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-03-21
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
ongoing
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-chicago-il-2015-ddc3be
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Chicago, IL reports filed in March 2015.

In context

  • Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
  • 182 reports came from Illinois in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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