UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Chicago Ridge, IL, USA

Me and a Friend were sitting on my Balcony of my Apartment.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-31
Where
Chicago Ridge, IL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 min
Geo
41.701, -87.779 · exact
Slug
light-over-chicago-ridge-il-1997-b047b7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Chicago Ridge, IL has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 55 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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