Occurred: 2012-08-02 15:00 Local
Reported: 2012-08-10 10:19 Pacific
Duration: <5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Chicago, IL, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Shiny silver blimp-like aircraft - no wings..

I was driving south on Pulaski Rd. @ Avondale Ave. which is just past the Kennedy Xway, and I happen to look up because weather reports were for rain. The sky background was not cloudy by grayish and dark as though an artist was painting a background in one fell swoop. In FRONT of the background was a SILVER (shiny and bright) ship looking like a BLIMP, more than a cigar shape. I thought it strange because I did look for wings and there were none. It appeared to be facing east.

I looked away at the traffic in front of me (bumper to bumper) and then looked back at the sky and no more blimp! I looked at the sky as much as I could from the driver's seat of a car and could not see any blimp. I did see see a regular passenger plane flying west towards O'Hare about 3 to 4 seconds after seeing the blimp.

I pondered what I saw later and surmised that it did not appear that the blimp was moving at all or hardly at all. The entire episode lasted less that 4 or 5 minutes.

Posted 2012-08-19

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