Rectangle over West Chicago, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We were standing in my driveway and this enormous thing flew over my house about 100 feet in the air. It was a dark mass in the sky wi
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1998-06-09 → 1998-06-26
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