Disk over Butler, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Me and my girlfriend wrestling a cigarette outside and since we don't smoke around our son we were making funny faces to our son through the screen door when he pointed up and said "look airplane!" I didn't hear anything so I quickly looked up and told him there wasn't one when my girlfriend said look!. There was an Orange ball flying due easy towards Lake Michigan. It was around a mile up and flew at half the speed of an airplane. It was shaped like a ball but looked like it had some kind of disc shape to it. The weird thing is it didn't make any noise and got brighter as it went further away. We have video evidence.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111959). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-14 → 2014-07-31
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