Light over Savanna, IL
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The report, as filed
Me and my friend seen what they looked like we're round lights they were in line they were hundreds of them and they were the same distance apart except for two that were together towards the end they looked like they were together they were probably 10 feet apart might have been connected to each otherand they come from underneath a bright light that was in the sky in the West and they were going Northeast and it looks like they went into a black hole and disappeared me and my friend were standing in my front yard and we observed this I got my camera which is a sanyo I tried to film it and my camera froze and it is still froze up which a hour prior to this event I was using my camera and it worked just fine had full batteries and everything has anyone else seen or report this event that happened in the northwest of Illinois or eastern Iowa, Clinton
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #154034). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-03-03 → 2020-03-20
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