Rectangle over Rockford (south of), IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
October 24, 2018. This morning on my way to work in IL going North on I-90, I was watching the moon. The sky had a few clouds and the moon was both bright and big. South of Rockford, I saw a rectangular shape, like that of a ruler, start to cross the moon from the upper right side. If the moon was a clock, around 1-2 o’clock. It headed both down and across the moon, as if it were following an orbit. This shape was too large to be a satellite or the space station. Though relatively thin, it was long, not quit the radius of the moon, but almost.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #143575). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-10-21 → 2018-11-07