CaseCircle1970
Chicago, IL, USA
A bright white, circular disk-shaped object was reported descending along the outside of a high-rise on Chicago's lakefront in June 1970, for about five minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (161 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-06-15
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-chicago-il-1970-cdaaef
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In context
- This is one of 413 reports logged in Chicago, IL.
- This case is one of 10 Illinois reports filed in 1970.
- Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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