CaseCigar2005
Chicago Heights, IL, USA
high pitched whirling noise and random lights moving very quickly with sharp turns.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-28
- Where
- Chicago Heights, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.506, -87.636 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-chicago-heights-il-2005-bb16d1
Wave
Part of a wave
IL flap 2005-09
IL, USA
67 sightings in geohash dp3s (IL) during 2005 peak months 9–10; top shape light
Flap
IL flap 2005-09
Logged as part of the IL flap 2005-09, a 67-report space-time cluster.
Explore this area →In context
- Chicago Heights, IL has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 209 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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