Chicago, IL, USA
The craft appeared to be a black triangle very, very quiet in rather quick in speed. It had reddish blinking strobe like lights and wh
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-08
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 11:35
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-chicago-il-2004-a1617a
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 413 documented reports from Chicago, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 220 sightings in 2004.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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