Chicago, IL, USA
Objects in a straight line formation. About 15 lights (not planes as they came too close to each other)
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-22
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1-2min
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-chicago-il-2021-1e8235
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
Chicago, IL logged 5 reports in the single month of May 2021.
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 71 sightings in 2021.
- Formation sightings ran at 5.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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