CaseTeardrop2003
Chicago (over Lake Michigan), IL, USA
a teardrop or fireball shaped object that hung in the sky; the object showed up on a long-exposure photograph.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-06-20
- Where
- Chicago (over Lake Michigan), IL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- At least two minutes
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-chicago-over-lake-michigan-il-2003-fa1ac8
In context
- Chicago (over Lake Michigan), IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from Illinois in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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