Other over Braidwood, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was on my deck; saw a super bright orange light high in the sky approaching, at a pretty fast speed, no sound. Ran and grabbed my high powered binoculars. Observed with binoculars the super bright orange light (which looked like a torch), emanating from the Center, base of the object, possibly within it. The light provided an outline of the object against the sky, looked either iridescent (reflection on metal?) or see through like a jelly fish. The object traveled West to East and was out of site in less than a minute. There was no time to take a picture and a picture would have only captured the super bright orange light. I am surprised that no one else saw/reported this.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #127606). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-05-26 → 2016-06-12