CaseLight2001
Chicago, IL, USA
Bright, very big, white light over Chicago
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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- Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-09-16
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- about 1 min.
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-chicago-il-2001-159b6a
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In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 140 sightings in 2001.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
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