Oval over St. Charles, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
AT 9:45 p.m., I was out in my yard with my 2 dogs. I live in a wooded area on the top of a valley. At first I saw an orange light through the trees. I didn’t think much about it until it broke the tree line. Roughly 250 ft in the air and traveling around 75 mph, a large orange sphere appeared. It had appeared almost liquid in appearance, luminance. It was large. Around the size of a huge SUV. And silent. It had passed directly overhead. I could see a smaller dark orange circle moving around inside the larger orange circle. It traveled about ½ mile further and just blinked out. The sky was crystal clear with no wind. No reaction from my dogs. And I was oddly calm for seeing my first U.F.O. I did get a feeling that it was not mechanical… but rather alive in a sense. Imagine the feeling you may get watching whales swim on a nature program.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #143628). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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