UFOMYST
CaseCigar1966

Chicago, IL, USA

Chicago 1966 sighting when no aircraft were flying.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-09-16
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10MINUTES
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-chicago-il-1966-9e5540
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 9 sightings in 1966.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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