Unknown over North Riverside, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Well, I was in bed, getting ready to fall asleep, and out my window was a speeding ball of light and it stopped, floated and bolted off back to the darkness of the sky! It was like living or like alive acting. It reminded me of a bee, and it was the size of the moon, with light as bright as sun, flying like a bee or an alive communicating insect that zoomed in and then out! It was too bright of a light to see a craft, but the way it acted and came in and then out made me for sure think UFO!!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #125173). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-01-03 → 2016-01-20
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