Sphere over Brookport, IL
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The report, as filed
After the towns fire works my wife and friends where waiting for the croud to clear and my friend noticed a red ball in the distance traveling from the east to south west. It was moving slow and seemed to stay still for about 30 sec then moved again in the same direction and then just went out! And then we noticed another one from the same direction moving more west and like the first one just went out. After that my wife and I went to a gas station and on our way back home we seen another one this was much lower than the other 2 and was above our town I was on a bridge and was driving so I couldn't keep an eye on it. It was also moving east to west. This all occured in about 30 mins of each other. I've never seen anything like this all 3 where a reddish color and did not flash or flicker and no sound! Thank you!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111729). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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