CaseDisk1962
Chicago, IL, USA
In the summer of 1962, witnesses in Chicago, Illinois, reported a disk-shaped lighted object in the sky, an event some later associated with a plane towing an illuminated sign.
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 (176 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-07-01
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-chicago-il-1962-1fd96c
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In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 6 sightings in 1962.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
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