UFOMYST
CaseOval2016

Chicago, IL, USA

UFO over Wrigley Field.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (23 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-08
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
<1 second
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
oval-over-chicago-il-2016-76f4e8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

October 2016 was a busy month for Chicago, IL: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 413 reports logged in Chicago, IL.
  • This case is one of 156 Illinois reports filed in 2016.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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