UFOMYST
CaseFormation2021

Chicago, IL, USA

My wife and I were sitting on the grass in the park overlooking the water of Lake Michigan at Montrose Harbor facing East. The sky was

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-01
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
formation-over-chicago-il-2021-ec85f7
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

May 2021 was a busy month for Chicago, IL: 5 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 413 reports logged in Chicago, IL.
  • This case is one of 71 Illinois reports filed in 2021.
  • Formation craft made up 5.2% of 2020s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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