Oval over Chenoa, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We (my wife and I... ) arrived at the Chenoa pool around 3:00pm. We were facing east floating on are back when an eagle caught our eye. while watching the eagle we noticed a super jumbo jet go over head going south east to north west, and being that it was partly cloudy the jet was very noticeable against the dark blue sky. It quickly disappeared behind a cloud. We noticed a smaller passenger jet flying at about the same altitude. Then at around 3:35pm an oval something ??? shot across the sky. It appeared to be moving 3 to 4 times faster than the jets we had seen just a few minutes before and twice (if not more) higher than the jets, and about a 3rd of the length of the commercial jets. Before we could yell to point it out to others in the pool it had gone behind the clouds.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170839). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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