Light over Danville, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Came outside to talk to my mother because I thought I heard my name when during our conversation I looked up to look at the stars and facing away from the house, I saw an extremely bright but small light just slowly inching it's away across the sky. At first, I thought it was just a small star until I saw it start moving. Then I thought it was a plane but saw no blue or red lights blinking. It was also moving TOO slow to be a plane. Then just as I was about to tell my mother, it vanished. I tried to find it and soon it appeared a few feet from its first location and it was extremely bright again and still moving slowly. I managed to get my mother to look but it had already vanished and you could just faintly see a soft light if you strained your eyes enough but my mother couldn't.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148170). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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