Light over Oakwood Hills, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On August 15th, at 3:15 AM, I had just gone to bed. I was lying in bed by my window waiting to see if I could see a meteor. I had a view of the southern sky. I saw a red light approaching from the west headed east at a very high rate of speed. The object then made a very abrupt U turn and headed back west at an even higher rate of speed. The object came back into view and darted around the sky for approximately 30 mins. Each time a plane would fly over the object would go away or not be visible. When the planes had passed the object would come back. This event lasted about 30 minutes.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135717). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-08-12 → 2017-08-29