CaseOval1986
Chicago, IL, USA
1986 saucer with white lights over chicago downtown disappears after 10 seconds
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-07-15
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chicago-il-1986-58c5cb
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Illinois in 1986.
- In the 1980s, 5.2% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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