Fireball over Plano, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
5 Fireball objects in sky over far western Chicago suburbs.
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 2013-04-24 → 2013-05-11
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September 28, 2014 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Plano, IL
The object rose in the southwest sky and continued on overhead to the northeast until no longer visible behind the treeline. It wiggled side-to-side a little in its flight path but flew mostly straight. It was bright orange and crossed the sky quickly, in a matter of seconds. It looked like a firework at first, but didn't burst--it just kept going. Date is flawed. We have changed it, to reflect a sighting in September 2014, not October 2014. PD
January 13, 2009 · 4:25 PM · CHANGING
Plano, IL
stationary small bright chrome light appeared then increased intensity then dissapeeared.