Light over Rockford, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Spectral kind of light 20 degrees above the horizon than vanished.
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 2003-10-19 → 2003-11-05
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April 12, 2023 · 9:22 PM · UNKNOWN
Rockford, IL
When my daughter(who was 4 years old at the time) and I got out of the car, I started to get the clothes out to take them inside the laundromat. My daughter yelled "look mommy a shooting star", and I looked up at the sky to see what she was talking about. Once I started looking at what she thought was a star, indeed it was shooting up like a shooting star, but then it just stopped moving and started having this green glow pulsating around it. I instantly took my phone out and started recording. I recorded for about 2-3mins, and during this time the object had changed colors, did circles in the sky, and it would go back and forth from a very bright light to a very dark spot in the sky. It even changed shapes while it was flying(circle object to a long rectangular object then back to a circle).
May 7, 2022 · 9:30 PM · DIAMOND
Rockford, IL
We was BBQ when we say something strange in the sky.
March 30, 2020 · 4:30 PM · FORMATION
Rockford, IL
15 white, bubble-shaped objects moving together in arc-shaped formation + few more on the side
March 21, 2020 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Rockford, IL
Im not sure how many i saw. It definitely wasnt natural. I looked up at the sky and noticed there were to many stars in the sjy. The lights were coming from the west moving east slightly south. The first light from the west was the brightest and biggest. They seemed to be climbing in altitude in a straight line.
March 6, 2020 · 7:45 AM · LIGHT
Rockford, IL
They were in the Northwest sky traveling from West south west to north by North East in single file about 10 miles apart at about 50 degree up from the horizon. Taking about 30 seconds for each one to cross my part of the sky. I called my friend in Lee County and they confirmed what I was seeing. I called my other friend in Rockford he confirm what I was seeing. We cannot be the only people that saw the lights all in a row about halfway through there was one that was two or three times the size as the rest
December 22, 2019 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Rockford, IL
The event was already occurring when I became cognizant. Numerous lights that appeared at first to be distant stars quickly became apparent that they were organized in a single file line. All lights were moving at the same speed and were evenly spaced in the line. Only 6 or 7 visible at a time. All lights appeared in the same location of origin and disappeared in the same location of exit. A second eye witness joined mid way. Watched the same event unfold until no more lights appeared. The final light observed seemed to linger for a moment before disappearing in the same location-perhaps in pursuit?