UFOMYST
CaseSphere2006

Chicago, IL, USA

daylight observation: moving brilliant hi alt star-like object, spherical

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2006-08-15
Where
Chicago, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 Mins
Geo
41.850, -87.650 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-chicago-il-2006-9a364b
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

5 reports came out of Chicago, IL in August 2006 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Chicago, IL has 413 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 144 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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