CaseDisk1961
Chicago, IL, USA
In 1961, a witness in Chicago, Illinois, reported a disk-shaped saucer in the sky over the city, remaining visible for about five minutes before it left.
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 (153 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
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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
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