Sphere over Warsaw, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was in my garage, when all of a sudden, there was a giant sonic boom it knocked a few things off the wall it was so big. i immediately ran outside to investigate because i could hear a jet off in the distance. when i stepped out of the garage and looked in the direction of the jet sound, i saw a giant silver sphere, just hovering. It was about a half mile away and maybe a hundred yards up in the air. My son was standing in the doorway of our house and i said, "check this out it's a ((word deleted)) ufo!!" he took 2 steps out of the house and it moved to the right a little bit and just faded away. It didn't speed off, it just literally faded away.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #136458). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-09-03 → 2017-09-20
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