CaseOther1962
Chicago, IL, USA
SITTING IN AVALON PARK ON A FALL NIGHT AT APP.1030 PM I SAW A METALIC OBJECT TRAVELING FROM E TO W I DIDNT GIVE IT MUCH THOUGHT BUT IT
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-10-15
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10SEC
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-chicago-il-1962-582356
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 6 sightings in 1962.
- Other sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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