Fireball over Palos Heights, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Have captured it on video first I was sitting in my family room looking out the back window facing east approximately couple thousand feet up noticed a orange flash coming from the east thought it was a plane on fire called the wife she looked out the window then we went out on the deck and took a video there were two of them approximately half a mile apart all the sudden they look as if they were slow or stopped because I noticed another airplane flying very quickly underneath it may be 1000 foot below a good night believe my eyes when I seen!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #156134). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-04-28 → 2020-05-15
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