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CaseCircle2016

Chicago (Lake Shafer), IN, USA

It was a round abject very bright lights fly on the sky over Lake Shafer. My husband and I were fishing. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-06-30
Where
Chicago (Lake Shafer), IN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
—
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · fallback
Slug
circle-over-chicago-lake-shafer-in-2016-291a17
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Chicago (Lake Shafer), IN has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 86 reports from Indiana.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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