Rectangle over Lincoln, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was a rectangular shape, it was flying a bit above aircraft height and was white and blinked an occasional blue and red. It was fairly small and extremely fast. The UFO appeared to be shooting out things that looked light lightning out from behind it but instead of it going down it made a trail behind them for about three 5 seconds before disappearing. The lightning thing appeared white with a blue outline and was extremely thin. There was only one UFO. We were laying on a trampoline stargazing when my sister pointed it out to me, it was dark and cloudy so the UFO really stuck out. We watched it until we thought it was getting to close and left. We couldn’t figure out what it was, we’ve never seen anything like it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160147). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-10-19 → 2020-11-05
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