CaseOval1998
Chicago (SW sky over Lake Michigan), IL, USA
Lying in bed I noticed a bright ball in the sky that rapidly changed colors from red to blue to white. After realizing that it hadn't
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-28
- Where
- Chicago (SW sky over Lake Michigan), IL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 45 Minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chicago-sw-sky-over-lake-michigan-il-1998-17b38a
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Chicago (SW sky over Lake Michigan), IL.
- This case is one of 66 Illinois reports filed in 1998.
- Oval craft made up 3.6% of 1990s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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