Light over Saint Charles, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Was outside on the phone with a friend of mine and noticed a light rapidly changing color from white/red/blue moving slowly above the tree line to the SE of my back porch. Observed it for a while, and it didn't move as quickly as a plane would have been moving in any direction. Observed a second light slightly north of the other light, with the same color changes. At one point both became very bright for a few seconds, then changed color shifts from the white/red/blue to one light only going white/red and the other going white/blue. Then observed a third light above the two, about halfway between them doing the full white/red/blue color change. Friend on the phone went outside where he lived and was able to observe on light following the white/blue color change.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113852). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-09-21 → 2014-10-08
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