UFOMYST
CaseDisk2015

Chicago, IL, USA

t was like nothing I've ever seen in the sky before it wasn't plane it wasn't helicopter our wasn't a blump it wasn't a jet or rocket

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2015-09-20
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
disk-over-chicago-il-2015-1b03e6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Chicago, IL logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2015.

In context

  • One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 182 sightings in 2015.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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