Unknown over Machesney Park, Illinois, IL

The report, as filed

It all started early at night, back when I lived in the neighborhood of Machesney Park Illinois. I was with my black pug Zuko out of the pool deck…when he just randomly looked straight up at the sky and started growling, all scared and tensed up like many dogs when they’re extremely on edge, I followed his gaze and when I looked up I saw it just slowly glazed across the sky, making its way over us. Didn’t look to big, but it was up in the sky so it probably looked small cause it was far away, it was only there for what felt like half a minute. It was moving slow enough for me to make out its shape. A mixture of a square and hexagonal shape, mostly square like,but with the end tips like a hexagon, there was also I glowing shape in the center of the bottom, might’ve been a circle or something but it’s kinda blurry in my memory cause the memory is eight years old. The UFO just kept going the direction it was going in (Heading what looked to be North West judging by the direction it was going in, eventually passing over us and out of sight. After that I just went straight to bed and tried to sleep despite my shock, then the next day, just went on with my life and kept quiet about it, and never told anyone up until now.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173762). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.