Chicato, IL, USA
Redish/Orange orbes with phone camera footage in Chicago from a rooftop during 4th of July.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-04
- Where
- Chicato, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- ~3 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- formation-over-chicato-il-2020-6e8e3b
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…
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Chicato, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 169 sightings in 2020.
- Formation sightings ran at 5.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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