Disk over Homewood, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
About 7pm I saw a bright orange saucer shaped craft flying/hovering heading East toward my house. West South/West. It was cloudy, and it was just inside the clouds. It was generaly flying East and at times was hovering. I didn't hear any sound from it. I'm an Army veteran. It wasn't flying like an airplane, or hovering like a hellicopter.I unlocked the door and got my wife and showed her. Then got my younger son. The first thing my wife said is that "It's hovering." By the time I got my younger son to see it. It was heading West and much further away. It's flight characteristics were all wrong.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173440). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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