CaseSphere1986
Chicago, IL, USA
SOCCER-SIZED CRYTAL-LIKE SPIKED BALL, Easily Missed If One Is Not Looking Directly At It.
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 (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-04-01
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-chicago-il-1986-922610
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 3 sightings in 1986.
- Sphere sightings ran at 8.1% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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