Sphere over Avon, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Two females saw seven lights in a row turn on then off one at a time. It then disappeared. It appeared again the same way five miles to east then five miles to the west. It was very large and very bright. It was at dusk and well below any airplanes in sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #115284). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-11-04 → 2014-11-21