Chicago O'Hare Airport, IL, USA
Disc seen hovering over O'Hare Airport. Many witnesses. FAA/TSA contacted. ((NUFORC Note: Source highly credible, disguised. PD)
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-11-07
- Where
- Chicago O'Hare Airport, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- disk-over-chicago-o-hare-airport-il-2006-0971ce
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…
In context
- Chicago O'Hare Airport, IL has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 144 reports from Illinois.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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