Other Flying · Chicago, Illinois · 2017
IL-2017ID case-ea9ed9ffbaAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Sep 10, 2017to the day
- Where
- Chicago, Illinoisto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Two witnesses report an unknown being gliding across the sky several miles away from each other in the Avalon Park and Douglas neighborhoods of Chicago.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Chicago, South Chicago Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 10, 2017
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-ea9ed9ffba
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Source trail (1)
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- September 10th, 2017: Two witnesses report an unknown being gliding across the sky several miles away from each other in the Avalon Park and Douglas neighborhoods of Chicago.
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Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.