Unknown over Belvidere, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
As my husband and I were driving home and we pulled into our neighborhood in Belvidere, IL around 8:20pm on Sat, 8/30/14, we noticed 3 orange lights in the sky. We initially thought they might be airplanes or helicopters which were reflecting light from the setting sun, but they seemed to be too close together. They were maybe a few miles away to the northeast. We watched them for at least 30 seconds, and then they simply disappeared. We pulled into our driveway, got out of are car and stood there for a minute looking for them, and they were gone. So our theory of an aircraft seemed out of the question.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113084). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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