CaseOval1974
Chicago, IL, USA
A report from Chicago, IL in April 1974 described an oval object that remained motionless before suddenly taking off at high speed.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-04-15
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chicago-il-1974-5dba93
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 11 sightings in 1974.
- Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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