As reported

Flash over Bradley, IL

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Bright flashing UFO spotted over northeastern kankakee county on 03/31/09

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 2009-03-26 → 2009-04-12

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November 22, 2019 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE

Bradley, IL

I start with this: I saw a falling star around 2000 hours in the Eastern sky at approximately 80 degrees off the horizon. I felt like going to my backyard to observe the sky there, facing west. I sat down on my back porch. I looked up and witness a blurry shape of about 5-7 light points moving north to south in the western sky, approximately 40 degrees off the horizon. I saw it move for approximately 10 seconds, quite unsure of what it was and if I was seeing this correctly. It was unambiguously not a falling star, nor a plane. It had a triangular shape, point facing in the flight direction of southerly direction. Again, the points of light were fuzzy, but still discernible as points of light. It did not travel fast like a falling star, but was slow. From horizon north to horizon south, I witnessed it travel about 15% of this distance, having my view of the whole horizon interrupted by bare tree cover.

September 18, 2012 · 9:30 PM · EGG