Light over Streator, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Me and my boyfriend were sitting on the back patio of my home. It was a little after 1 am when my boyfriend (Josh) stated we probably didn’t need the bug zapper on due to it only being around 50 degrees out and us not seeing any bugs out. The zapper let’s off a fair amount of light. As soon as he unplugged it we both notice a bright light start to appear in the sky west of us. It looked as though something was breaking through the sky. After about 30 seconds a brighter object come through and hovered for a few more seconds. Then all of a sudden it started to release what appeared to be a vapor of some kind. At first it was all coming out in just a big puff and then it turned into a circle . The circle drifted north east while the object then very quickly zoomed south of the vapor but also heading east. The object stayed a very bright light the entire time. We watched it zoom past for maybe 15 seconds heading towards a star and then once it got to the star it disappeared. The vapor it released expanded into a bigger circle drifting more east for a bit and then broke apart and made several different shaped clouds. The sky was completely clear and lots of stars were visible. The only formation of clouds came from whatever this object had released.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #168784). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-06-15 → 2022-07-02
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