Flap: Bensenville, Illinois, Apr–Jun 2022
5 reports · 5 separate documents
Other Flying (5).
In the 10 years either side we have 76 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Apr 9, 2022 Several family members attending a party in Elk Grove, Illinois, claim they saw a winged humanoid with glowing red eyes perched on a neighbor’s roof.
Other Flying · Elk Grove Village, Illinois - Apr 20, 2022 A man in River Grove claims to have seen a strange, black, winged creature flying near St. Joseph Cemetery.
Other Flying · River Grove, Illinois - Apr 28, 2022 A truck driver reports encountering a giant, red-eyed 'man-bat' while dropping off equipment at work in Bensenville, Illinois.
Other Flying · Bensenville, Illinois - May 17, 2022 A father and daughter claim to have recorded three winged humanoids while outside of their home in Bensenville, Illinois.
Other Flying · Bensenville, Illinois - Jun 2022 A woman and her husband reportedly encountered an 'owl man' while driving at night in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.
Other Flying · Rolling Meadows, Illinois
Sources: singularfortean (5).
How we find flaps
- Plain rules, no model: reports within 37 miles and about four months of each other are grouped, and a group counts only when it is at least 5 times what that place usually sees over the 10 years either side.
- A flap needs at least 3 reports from at least 3 separate documents: one article listing six sightings is one telling.
- Copies are not confirmations: a story reprinted in thirty papers counts once.
- Investigator logs (BFRO, NAWAC, the Loch Ness Register) are left out, because a busy field season looks just like a flap.
- Only reports placed to a town or county and dated to the month are used. A flap is a burst of reports, not proof of a creature: panics, hoaxes and newspaper fashions make flaps too.