Extremely bright object changes color & shoots into sky.
I was washing my father's Jeep, he recently had a stroke & asked me to clean it for him, we ran to the car wash.. This was a bit before 8:00pm. After finishing washing the Jeep, my partner & I drove out behind NAL (business in town) to drive down the road & dry off the majority of the water. I stopped the Jeep before the end of the road, under a streetlight, to get out & finishing drying it off with a towel.
When I was almost done I noticed a VERY bright object up in the sky (circular but bright), towards the east. At first, I figured it was an airplane or helicopter but the object was moving in too many directions for an aircraft(bobbing up & down, but moving left to right far too quickly for a plane). I yelled for my partner to look & when he got out of the Jeep he said it was probably a drone, but I’ve never seen a drone with a hazy orb around it. We couldn’t tell if the bright object was very far away or somewhat close. As I told my partner to go get his phone, to take a video it became I creasingly brighter, & the color changed from a bright white to what almost resembled fire. The object seemed to shoot off in a matter of seconds to the North & left a small faint trail of yellow light behind where it originally shot off. We heard the noise of cars on Main Street & the Jeeps engine running. There was no loud boom, like a jet breaking the sound barrier.
I have never believed in aliens visiting Earth (UFOs), and to be honest, I still don’t know what we saw. After witnessing whatever this was we were both were confused & just laughed about it. My partners bestfriend is married to a police officer, so we called to see if he was on duty, he was, & to see if anyone else had reported this weird light in the sky. He thought we were joking & after we explained what happened he told us that it was probably an airplane headed back to the airport or something from Scott Airforce Base.
Again I don’t know what we saw, but I know it wasn’t a drone or airplane. Maybe it’s something else & you’re sites employees can answer what it was? We are both scientifically minded, educated adults with good careers & don’t want people thinking we are crazy, but we have gone from confused to almost scared by what we witnessed. We just want an answer.
Ps. We didn’t know there was a hotline until coming home & researching what happened & finding your site.
I was washing my father's Jeep, he recently had a stroke & asked me to clean it for him, we ran to the car wash.. This was a bit before 8:00pm. After finishing washing the Jeep, my partner & I drove out behind NAL (business in town) to drive down the road & dry off the majority of the water. I stopped the Jeep before the end of the road, under a streetlight, to get out & finishing drying it off with a towel.
When I was almost done I noticed a VERY bright object up in the sky (circular but bright), towards the east. At first, I figured it was an airplane or helicopter but the object was moving in too many directions for an aircraft(bobbing up & down, but moving left to right far too quickly for a plane). I yelled for my partner to look & when he got out of the Jeep he said it was probably a drone, but I’ve never seen a drone with a hazy orb around it. We couldn’t tell if the bright object was very far away or somewhat close. As I told my partner to go get his phone, to take a video it became I creasingly brighter, & the color changed from a bright white to what almost resembled fire. The object seemed to shoot off in a matter of seconds to the North & left a small faint trail of yellow light behind where it originally shot off. We heard the noise of cars on Main Street & the Jeeps engine running. There was no loud boom, like a jet breaking the sound barrier.
I have never believed in aliens visiting Earth (UFOs), and to be honest, I still don’t know what we saw. After witnessing whatever this was we were both were confused & just laughed about it. My partners bestfriend is married to a police officer, so we called to see if he was on duty, he was, & to see if anyone else had reported this weird light in the sky. He thought we were joking & after we explained what happened he told us that it was probably an airplane headed back to the airport or something from Scott Airforce Base.
Again I don’t know what we saw, but I know it wasn’t a drone or airplane. Maybe it’s something else & you’re sites employees can answer what it was? We are both scientifically minded, educated adults with good careers & don’t want people thinking we are crazy, but we have gone from confused to almost scared by what we witnessed. We just want an answer.
Ps. We didn’t know there was a hotline until coming home & researching what happened & finding your site.
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Salem
USA
30-45 seconds
30-45 seconds
38.63
-88.94
light
IL
Occurred : 8/7/2019 20:00 (Entered as : 08/07/2019 20:00) Reported: 9/7/2019 8:21:02 PM 20:21 Posted: 9/12/2019 Location: Salem, IL Shape: Light Duration: 30-45 seconds Characteristics: The object left a trail, There was an aura or haze around the object, The object changed color
Extremely bright object changes color & shoots into sky.