Chicago, IL, USA
2 strange floating bright reddish-orange lookin disk with what looks like 3 lights beaming from it silently move. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-03-29
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 6 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-chicago-il-2018-f68d3b
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
March 2018 was a busy month for Chicago, IL: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 413 reports logged in Chicago, IL.
- This case is one of 104 Illinois reports filed in 2018.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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