CaseCigar1999
Chicago, IL, USA
For 5 to 10 minutes two witnesses observe a stationary cigar shaped object not consitant with the shape of a blimp while driving down I
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-07-05
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-chicago-il-1999-1bc3f3
In context
- This is one of 413 reports logged in Chicago, IL.
- This case is one of 111 Illinois reports filed in 1999.
- Cigar craft made up 2.3% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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