UFOMYST
CaseDisk1966

Chicago, IL, USA

It hovered straight across from me.

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 (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-01
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
disk-over-chicago-il-1966-77a1a0
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • This is one of 413 reports logged in Chicago, IL.
  • This case is one of 9 Illinois reports filed in 1966.
  • Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

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.