Cigar over Joliet, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
it was a very bright blue and it had 3 lights on what looked like the side to the right and on the left side what could have been its back side was 2 lights and the back side was white it was just sitting there i went to get binoculars to try to see better thats when i seen lights on it i watched and watched while it sat still then i went to get my phone to take a picture i took the pictures and then continued to watch about two or three minutes after taking the picture it began to move slowly to the right then slowly to the left hovering for seconds and the it started descending slowly until it was out of sight
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #128261). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-07-01 → 2016-07-18
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