CaseOval1968
Chicago, IL, USA
A witness in Chicago, Illinois reported an oval-shaped object with no wings, tail, or struts and a blunt nose and tail, resembling an elliptical fuselage, during a four-minute sighting in June 1968.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (198 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-01
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chicago-il-1968-aa19dd
In context
- Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
- 1968 brought 6 reports from Illinois.
- The 1960s skewed 6.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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