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A group of Illinois office workers observed a "copper colored, brightly flashing" object that hovered in the daytime sky while "smaller pieces appeared to be breaking away and falling rapidly" to the ground on July 16, 2010, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
"It was much brighter than anything I have ever seen in the day light which is what drew my attention," the reporting witness stated.
A group of workers assembled outside the building where the object had ascended higher in the sky, but was directly overhead.
"In a completely cloudless crystal blue background there was no reference for the altitude or size of the object."
At this point, the group reports that pieces of the object began to fall off to the ground.
After 10 or 15 minutes, the witness reports that the object itself began falling toward the ground.
"You could almost see a tumbling type effect and it began to get substantially larger."
One of the witnesses got into a vehicle in an attempt to locate where the object came down, but was unsuccessful.
The group was also unable to agree on a consistent shape of the object. "As earlier stated, it first appeared oblong, and seemed to change. I believe we were probably seeing it from different angles."
The Illinois city was not named in the public portion of the MUFON report. No images were submitted with the report that was filed on July 17, 2010.
The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Illinois MUFON State Director Sam Maranto investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update.
IL, July 16, 2010 - I saw a very bright object out of my office window. Myself and four co workers ran outside and oserved for fifteen minutes. MUFON Case # 24592.
At approximately 3p.m. out of my Southeast facing office window I observed a copper colored brightly flashing object larger than a planet and slightly elongated moving into the top of a line of pine trees.
It was much brighter than anything I have ever seen in the day light which is what drew my attention.
The object moved laterally to my left behind the tree tops, emerged on the other side, and began a slow vertical ascent. I pointed this out to several co workers.
My boss also took note of this as a very unusual looking object. He hurried outside to get a closer look, and I followed shortly.
When I arrived in front of the building in addition to my boss, were two other co workers who were out smoking at the time. All four of us were now oberving the strange object in braod day light. It was not like anything any of us have ever seen.
In the time it took me to go downstairs and outside, it had risen higher into the sky and was now almost directly over head. In a completely cloudless crystal blue background there was no reference for the altitude or size of the object.
Smaller pieces appeared to be breaking away and falling rapidly.
This effect was noticed at least three different times. After approximately ten or fifteen minutes of maintaining a relatively stationery position, it appeared to begin falling. You could almost see a tumbling type effect and it began to get substantially larger.
At this point I made a run for my phone with the intention of getting a picture. I told another friend of mine in the office about it on the way to my desk. He headed outside while I found my phone. By the time I came back the object had fallen below the tree line although the fifth witness did observe the object before it went out of sight.
My boss actually jumped in his car and took off in attempt to locate the point of impact. It is tough to estimate how near or far this may have been without the ability to get a feel for the altitude. There is also no way of knowing if the object was purely reflecting light, or giving off it's own. It was remarkably bright in the light of day, and at no point did it ever go completely dim the way an airplane does when its angle in relation to the sun changes.
It also lacked a consistent shape. As earlier stated, it first appeared oblong, and seemed to change. I believe we were probably seeing it from different angles. I have not seen any local news coverage so far, and was hoping you have encountered similar reports. I would love an explanation of what this may have been!!
Comments
It was a chinese lantern.
Sure... aliens traverse light years, figure out stellar navigation, figure out that radiation shielding issue in deep space, develop warp drive engines, and when they get here, they fall apart or crash. BWAAHAHAHA - right. Such utter stupidity.
It hovered in the air for ten or fifteen minutes and not one of them had a camera or mobile phone. How unlikely is that?
Who's to say that "we" as in elements of the human race or perhaps other entities were involved and they just didnt see it? Or perhaps the ship was damaged prior, tried to get to a populated area in hopes of what ever was attacking it would stop in hopes ot repair or regroup itself, but then it eventually lost altitude and fell to the ground. I'd be interested to see a follow up report on this incident.
Maybe not a commercial Chinese Lantern. I'd think it was a home made hot air balloon made of Mylar (shiny metallic thin plastic). I've see them at night, made of dry cleaner bags and a simple drinking-straw strut that holds birthday candles or some other heat source (you could use a bit of cotton soaked in alcohol, sitting in a bit of aluminum foil... just speculating). Anyway, I've seen one at night (not of my doing!) it caught me unaware and it seemed so much larger than it really was... really startling until it started burning and slowly, bits feel until it started to drop.
I'm not skeptical about UFO's, this story just does not describe such an event, IMHO.
echoing the comment above. in a major US city, afternoon and in observance of office workers, no one has a phone with a camera or video. Not a mention of wanting to take a picture but the guy jumps in a car. Virtually every phone has those capabilities today except what you may give kids. I believe we are being visited but give me a break.
Give me a break, does a Chinese Lantern have such a lightsource it can "It was much brighter than anything I have ever seen in the day light which is what drew my attention. "
?!?! Quit with the chinese lantern bull****
This would be a plasma ball...or "ball lightening" when it occurs in association with a thunder storm. It is thought they can occur from geoelectrical sources or terrestrial electricity sources.
Source: Electrical Engineer
i saw three bright orange lights and then one white light,the first three could of been chinese laterns but that does not explain the white light that i saw in torquay devon two weeks ago
Hate to be a sceptic, but my neighbours once witnessed what they took to be a UFO or "alien-craft" they hysterically described it to us just moments after, with details similar to this- eg: how bright it was and its changing shape. It turns out this sheet of foil insulator we were using to line the greenhouse had taken off in the wind and got to quite a height. As it was metallic it refelected the sun well. My dad retrieved it from the nearby field. We never told our neighbours though.
In an era when 9 out 10 people have camcorders and camphones there are NO pix of UFO's. It was actually a Phoenix catching fire.
I believe they saw something, but why is it that whenever somebody sees something they can't identify, they immediately make the assumption that it's aliens from another world.
Looking forward to read the follow up story if they find debris.
there are now more pics of the chinese airport object, and did anyone see the thing in the sky on 7/4?
I see a bright oragnish light right now! It's, umm, it;s... Nevermind. It was just my desklamp.
It was clearly Shredder's spaceship ready to poop on Splinter yipp yipp hooee hooe yay!
Me thinks it twas me stinky tinky, it was missing that day (^_^)
Snarfblac, whats a stinky tinky?
Observed for 10 to 15 minutes, and NOBODY had a camera phone?
What a crap! All UFO stories are crap unless you verify it with smart phone cameras from different angles. 100 % of these "office workers" probably have an iphone or other camera device and now want to waste our time with "eyewitness reports". Get a life!
I can't believe that nobody had a camera an absolutely unbelievable story. I think those folks need to quit getting stoned on their smoke breaks!
it seems to me that we are S-L-O-W-L-Y becoming more open to the possibilities that we have been visited by ETs for a long, long time, because theses people didn't run into the street to pray for forgiveness.
but where are all the pics and videos? well, maybe next time, so in the mean time, watch the skies with your cameras
Interesting quote from Vallee's 'Confrontations' p. 42 that seems to relate: "Over the years there have been many intriguing claims of flying disks literally raining metal from the sky." The book was published 20 years ago.
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