CaseDisk1963
Great Lakes, IL, USA
Craft of some size flew slowly over the Great Lakes Naval base during my tenure at boot camp.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-03-15
- Where
- Great Lakes, IL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.309, -87.850 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-great-lakes-il-1963-8fb73e
In context
- Great Lakes, IL shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Illinois in 1963.
- In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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