UFOMYST
CaseFlash2005

Chicago, IL, USA

Wife and I were watching TV...she noticed a bright orange flash outside to the west/southwest. We're 7 stories up in our building, and

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-03-11
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
1 second or so
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
flash-over-chicago-il-2005-81af86
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 209 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.