UFOMYST
CaseFormation1946

Oak Lawn, IL, USA

V-formation 5 silver disks with 1 trailing behind, size of small peas high & fast heading NE bypassing Chicago to Indiana

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1946-09-12
Where
Oak Lawn, IL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
41.711, -87.758 · exact
Slug
formation-over-oak-lawn-il-1946-a04b10
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1946

    The Ghost Rockets

    Scandinavia (Sweden foremost), spreading across Europe

    One year after WWII, projectile-like objects crossed Scandinavian skies, some reportedly crashing into lakes; Swedish military dredging found nothing. With Soviet-occupied Peenemünde nearby, the assumption was Russian…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 51 documented reports from Oak Lawn, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 1 sightings in 1946.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.9% during the 1940s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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