Sphere over Mount Vernon, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
However, the object returned as fast as it had left, but appeared over a different house. It repeated this action quite a few times. This went on for a good hour to an hour and a half before it finally left the area. I'm not sure what it was doing, but if I had to guess it was collecting intell. The object was about the size of a softball at about a thousand feet. It was dark in color and had no identifying lights. There was no sound or noise of any kind coming from the object. The weather was calm with a wind speed of 5 mph and frequent gusts of 17 mph with a visibility of 10.00 miles. There were some high-altitude clouds in the area, but none to obstruct the view of the object. Weather history information provided through Weather Underground.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #118795). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-04-30 → 2015-05-17
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