CaseDisk1999
Chicago (southwest side), IL, USA
Slow moving, then rapid moving to out of view disc shapes object in night sky
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-07-26
- Where
- Chicago (southwest side), IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-chicago-southwest-side-il-1999-7ea215
In context
- Chicago (southwest side), IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 111 reports from Illinois.
- The 1990s skewed 7.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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