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|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  4 November 65 04/2400Z | Des Plaines, Illinois  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian | A/C  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS |   |
|  10-12 | A/C with advertising sign.  |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  30 minutes | Object appeared to have 10 or 12 parts all same size and shape tapered on the ends. Yellow. Flight pattern of object was square. Flight dispatcher at airport was informed that a local furniture store had an a/c flying around the area with a neon sign attached.  |
|  6. TYPE OF OBSERVATI
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H NOV 04/24/66 Z

COMBAT READINESS TRAINING OPERATIONS
928TH TROOP CARRIER GROUP, MEDIUM (RESERVE)
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
O'HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Chicago, Illinois 60666

SUBJECT: U.F.O.

A. Description of the object:
1. Would you please describe object's shape
Square Very large lights

2. Size as compared to a known object held in the hand at about arm's length. (Such as a pea, dime, nickel, baseball, etc.)
4 times as large as a Basket Ball Similar to 4 drawer filing cabinet

3. Color Yellow

4. Number 10-12

5. Formation, if more than one

6. Any discernible features or details
Looked 
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B. Description of course of object.
1. What first called the attention of observer to the object _____________
Looked up in sky
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Angle or elevation and azimuth of object when first observed _____________
Unk 1000, feet above flight pattern
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Angle or elevation and azimuth of object upon disappearance _____________
Unk
___________________________________
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D. Time and date of sighting
1. Time Zulu 2400-0030Z Date 4 Nov 65
2. Was it, night, day, dawn, dusk
Night

E. Location of Observer. Where did you make this sighting from? Give exact location. (If necessary give location in reference to a known land mark)
In front of mt Prospect State Bank

F. Identifying Information on Observer
1. Civilian Name
2. Age 42
3. Mailing Address
4. Occupation Quality Control Engineer
5. Reliability Good
6. Telephone No

Military:
1. Name N/A
2. Grade
3. Organization
4. Duty
5. Reliability
6. Telephone No.

G. Weather and Winds - Aloft conditions at time and place o
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H. Did you notice any unusual activity or conditions, meteorological, astronomical, or otherwise, which might account for the sighting
No

L. Did you take any photographs
No
Do you know of any existence of physical evidence of materials
No

INITIALS JBW

Wife and 3 sons also witnessed sighting.

When I called weather for item G I was informed that a local furniture store has a airplane flying around the area with a Neon Sign Attached.

James B. Whelan
JAMES B. WHELAN
Flight Clerk Dispatcher

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