Fireball over Yorkville, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Me and about 15 other friends were sitting around a bonfire last night, we all at once looked up to see a bright red-ish ball of light in the sky, I know for a fact that it was a possible UFO and or 'being' and was not a conventional aircraft. I see normal aircraft on approach to chicago airports Midway and O'hare all that time. This object moved slowly then stopped 3 different times then went straight down towards the earth at crazys speeds than stopped around 10k feet for about 5 seconds and without a sound vanished as if it were never there. This is my first time ever seeing something like this, and kind of scared us. I am still having a hard time understanding what we all saw last night.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #109707). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-05-21 → 2014-06-07
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