As reported

Fireball over Lemont, IL

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

big fire balls 20ft tall and 30ft wide. when they left they left burn marks.

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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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2002-04-19 → 2002-05-06

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November 14, 2020 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE

Lemont, IL

There is objects in the sky that at first looked like stars but then when I looked closer it was lights that were blinking . Been watching it for about a week sometimes couldn’t take picture or video because it would be kind of far away but today I did. The objects move sometimes forward sometimes in circular motion and today when I started filming it seems like it started coming down every time I looked at it through the window. At first I taught maybe it’s drawn or something but it seemed weird that the sky is full of them. And when I took a video and photo it looks like it has some kind of aura it changes shapes, kind of hard to describe.

October 13, 2012 · 8:30 PM · OVAL