CaseOther1953
Cicero, IL, USA
Witnesses in Cicero, Illinois, just west of Chicago, reported an object or formation passing overhead in a triangular pattern for about two minutes in November 1953.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (165 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1953-11-13
- Where
- Cicero, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 41.846, -87.754 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-cicero-il-1953-8e73b1
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In context
- Cicero, IL shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Illinois in 1953.
- In the 1950s, 6.1% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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