NUFORC Sighting 135717

Occurred: 2017-08-15 03:15 Local
Reported: 2017-08-15 05:43 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakwood Hills, IL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Object made abrupt U turn at a very high rate of speed

On August 15th, at 3:15 AM, I had just gone to bed. I was lying in bed by my window waiting to see if I could see a meteor. I had a view of the southern sky. I saw a red light approaching from the west headed east at a very high rate of speed. The object then made a very abrupt U turn and headed back west at an even higher rate of speed. The object came back into view and darted around the sky for approximately 30 mins. Each time a plane would fly over the object would go away or not be visible. When the planes had passed the object would come back. This event lasted about 30 minutes.

Posted 2017-08-17

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