Unknown over Murphysboro, IL

The report, as filed

My brother and I were leaving St. Joseph's Memorial Hospital in Murphysboro, IL around 5:40am, and on the way home, I noticed something strange in the sky. At first, I thought it was a weird bright star that I hadn't noticed before. Shortly after discovering it, I realized it was moving. I then told my brother to look up at the sky, and as soon as I did, it was much closer as well as brighter. It then shifted to my side of the vehicle, and I decided to pull over to take pictures in amazement. I started to feel very nauseous, which isn't an uncommon symptom I experience, however this was also met with an uneasy "start driving away" feeling. So, I did exactly that. I got back off the side of the road, and I continued to drive home. As we watched this object move in an oddly quiet, quick, and peculiar motion, I grew more nervous then drove to a gas station. On the way there, it shifted to my side of the vehicle, and almost had what looked like rays of light beam off it. I began to panic and stopped at a gas station called Moto Mart in Carterville, IL, and convinced the attendant to step outside. I'm not certain if everything she saw, but I did ask her to step outside to view the object. When she did, the object was high in the atmosphere, which made it difficult to see. She did say that she stepped back outside after we left and the object was still there. Yet, we were followed until we reached two roads from our house, then it completely vanished. During the entire time we noticed the object in a still form, and rarely with flashing lights. Majority of the time the lights were a solid color. We believe there were actually as many as four objects all together. We noticed several different shapes through the course of the interaction, as well as different colors. I first noticed a tic tac shape which is partially what drew me to the "star", then we noticed a formation which looked like several different crafts, then we noticed a straight line, then an almost boomerang shape, and we noticed a triangle with a straight line through the middle. We were able to see this with a naked eye, even during the daylight.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178848). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.