CaseCircle1970
Chicago, IL, USA
Reddish orange spheres (3) seen going south to north in a mechanical, straight line trajectory
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-04-15
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-chicago-il-1970-62cd1f
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Illinois in 1970.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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