Flash over Blyton, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My family and I were standing in our field looking at the cloudless, 2/3 full moon, southwestern night sky when all of us said, "Did you see that?!" We all saw a very bright, white flash in the northeast sky. What was weird was all of us saw this flash out of the corner of our eyes so that attests to how bright and spread out the flash was.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #136175). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-09-06 → 2017-09-23