UFOMYST
CaseCircle1952

Chicago (south suburb), IL, USA

A witness in a south Chicago suburb reported two objects, observed as a preteen in the early 1950s, for about 10 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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-06-10
Where
Chicago (south suburb), IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
circle-over-chicago-south-suburb-il-1952-4d4dc8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round

    United States, focal point Washington D.C.

    The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Chicago (south suburb), IL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1952 brought 3 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1950s skewed 10% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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