Changing over Bartlett, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A tail like UFO moving from east to west taking on diffent shapes.Then from the east a spherical object enters the frame and moves below the tail like object and seems to enter the UFO frim below it. Then from west to east another spherical object crosses.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #149853). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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