Fireball over Jonesboro, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hoax?? PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120874). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-07-31 → 2015-08-17
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October 6, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Jonesboro, IL
Was sitting outside when in the south sky I saw a bright light move from east to west. It was like an extremely slow moving meteor. Only in was right above the horizon and went across the sky, unlike any meteorite I've ever seen. It was almost like the light skipped. It wasnt a streak where the light is solid but, rather like a dash of light. Quite a bit more aircraft in the sky afterwards than normal. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 12, 2015 · 9:40 PM · FORMATION
Jonesboro, IL
Me and my boyfriend were sitting outside, just like we do every night. I had already witnessed the same white dim light moving extremely slow at about 95°, only this time there were 3. Seconds later as usual it just disappeared. Moves much slower than a meteor. About 25 mins later a craft flew above our heads, was very quiet didn't move like an airplane or have same blinking lights as a typical one, was shaped differently too. Seemed almost to stop at times. We assumed it was a drone as it moved to the South. I then noticed a faint red light and as I pointed it out to my boyfriend, we noticed them light up all over the SE sky. They were zig zagged in flight path and a few of them were so close together at times it was unreal, they seemed to just be flying all around, stayed in same position of sky for a few minutes! We counted approximately 7 of the red lights (which would blink white so often). All the sudden they split up and went different directions dis! appearing as fast as they appeared. About 15 -20 seconds later 2 airplanes, I believe, Criss-crossed over us from opposite directions. One from SW and one from NE. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 21, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Jonesboro, IL
Approx 30secs after it left my view due to trees the exact same thing happened again. 30 secs later another one. The 4th object had a solid red light, but moved just as slow. About 1 min after red light left my view it was back to dim white flashing light, and 1 min later, I saw the last same white flashing light. All 6 going from S-SE appeared from exact location and took the same zig zag path to SE. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 11, 2015 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Jonesboro, IL
Object moved in a horizontal position for 3 seconds and then shot downwards with a white tail into the east.
June 16, 2014 · 11:30 PM · FORMATION
Jonesboro, IL
Me and my boyfriend went outside cause the dogs were barking when we got outside I immediately looked up and noticed 3 stars and to the right was another v-shape of 3 stars. Then we both noticed the lights were slightly moving, wobbling. Then I looked to the left of the middle cluster and noticed light blue tiny lights, the top 2 we solid whete there was 2 more below it which sporadicly blunk very fast. I was pointing out some other odd looking lights to him, when we looked back and there was about 20 more lights that just appeared all around. They way they moved in almost seemed like watching a storm cloud rolling in. The formation would change almost like making diffetent shapes. Or designs. as they wrre moving. As I realized just how many objects were in the sky, it kinda started freaking me out and I went inside.
August 12, 2012 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Jonesboro, IL
Large red light with smaller white flashing lights