2010-05-15 - Chicago, IL - Sphere

Standing on the corner of Kolnar and Belmont looking east. A Pitch black sphere slowly hovered, moving in a south-eastern direction. There was a distortion effect around it. Like a haze or something blocking the human eye from seeing more of it. I didn't have a camera on me but it looked like the footage i have seen of the phoenix lights during the day when they appear to be black spheres...this sighting was in full daylight. I tracked it while on the phone with my brother until it was out of sight. The Sphere was close enough to me that I could easily see that it was NOT any sort of aircraft at ALL. NO sound, NO lights, NO markings. Just a black floating sphere. There was no way to truly know its size but my educated guess would be between the size of a minivan and possibly even larger. Maybe the size of a house.