CaseUnknown1974
Chicago, IL, USA
Orange light different from landing aircraft at O'Hare Airport shot up, then to the right and then out of site in about 5 seconds.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-10-31
- Where
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- about 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.850, -87.650 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-chicago-il-1974-5613d5
In context
- Chicago, IL shows up 413 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Illinois in 1974.
Report
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