CaseDisk1961
Chicago, IL, USA
Disk shapped saucer over the city of Chicago.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-06-17
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-chicago-il-1961-924f33
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Illinois in 1961.
- In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.