Unknown over Ottawa, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Slow moving objects with white light. Light would turn off or to red. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122472). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-09-28 → 2015-10-15
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June 18, 2022 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Ottawa, IL
I was driving on i-80 east with a co-worker nearing Ottawa IL, when I saw three bright white dots in the sky. They were in a formation of a perfect triangle. At first I thought it might br planes but they remained apparently motionless as we kept driving. I asked my coworker what he thought they were and he had noticed them before I pointed them out. He couldn't give any guesses and tried to take a picture but his phone camera is not very good. After driving and watching for a few minutes, we noticed a 4th bright white light appear, the triangle broke patern into more of a circle or oval then started rotating. This was the first I seen any of the dots move at all. This whole time I wasn't paying attention to exit signs and almost missed my exit at Ottawa. I got over and got off but when I looked back up they were gone. I wish I wasn't driving because my phone may have been able to capture something of it. I believe cars around us saw it as well, because when I looked at my speedometer before I got off the highway we were all going 15 under the speed limit. The weirdest part and I wasn't going to mention at first was I thought we were another 25 minutes away from Ottawa and when I looked up we were almost passed it, time went by super fast. And a kind of dark vision in my eyes from staring at those lights, kind of like getting a direct glimpse of the sun makes the background darker.
October 20, 2021 · 7:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Ottawa, IL
I was watching the sun come on a cloudless morning. There were a few jets and some Contrails but nothing out of the ordinary until this object came streaking across the sky. The speed and robust contrail is what caught my eye at first. It was hard getting it in frame at full focus but when I did I noticed the contrail was missing something. A traditional aircraft. I did my best to get something useable but these two were it and it was gone. Horizon to horizon. To guess the exact time it took to cross would be just that. A guess. There was no sound but whatever it was it was way up there.
May 22, 2020 · 9:10 AM · OVAL
Ottawa, IL
Ottawa Illinois. Corner of W McKinley and Dairy Ln looking west. Friday May 22 2020 at about 0910. Took pictures of cloud formations. Did not see any objects in pictures until I stopped the vehicle about 30 seconds after taking pictures. The first picture shows what I believe to be a bird. The second and third pictures show something else. The object just looked like a white spot. Didn’t seem to be a cloud. When zoomed though...... it sure the heck looks like the navy tic-tac to me. First pic taken through windshield. 2nd and 3rd taken with no obstructions.
November 13, 2016 · 3:00 PM · CYLINDER
Ottawa, IL
I Seen a cylinder shaped object in the Northern sky at about 45 degrees, I noticed it because it appeared the sun was reflecting off it, As I was watching it, it seem to fade out then re-appeared maybe 2 miles away only to do the same thing again fading out. When it faded out the first time and moved it was instantaneous. Then I just read about some cylinder shaped object crash in Myanmar three days ago. Maybe some type of space debris. But it was odd then it didn't lose altitude and kind of hung in one place before it moved.
July 8, 2016 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
Ottawa, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 11, 2015 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Ottawa, IL
I saw a transparent object flying low overhead, it looked to be cloaked and the light looked bent around it. Seemed to have a mist surrounding it. I only noticed it when it moved because I could see the mist moving. Once it was noticed by me and a few friends around the fire, it turned and flew off. It also made no noise at all...very eerie. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD