1967-09-16 / Chicago, Illinois / debunked
FBI Chicago file 100-44501 contains two pieces of correspondence. The first, a September 22, 1967 memo from SA C. Leonard Treviranus, records that eleven-year-old Tom Mitchell of 7825 South Colfax, Chicago, telephoned the FBI on September 16, 1967, to report hearing a "weird" noise and seeing a "flash of light going north in the sky" at approximately 8:30 PM; the information was passed to Sergeant Eugene Ripka of the Army-Air Force 755th Radar Squadron.
Unidentified object described by eleven-year-old witness as a 'flash of light going north in the sky,' accompanied by a 'weird' noise, observed at approximately 8:30 PM on September 16, 1967