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UFO. United States

ID #1684920143
Added Wed, 24/05/2023
Author July N.
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Initial data

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Incident date: 
11.02.2022 21:28
Location: 
Чикаго, IL
United States

Glowing orange sphere in Chicago.

Sorry, the old message was deleted because I didn't include this information. Location: Chicago, Illinois. Time: 9:28 CST. Date: 11/2/22.

I live in Chicago, near O'Hare Airport. My friend and I went outside for the first time in a long time just to relax and talk. It happened at 9:28 pm Central Standard time. We are facing each other and my girlfriend is telling me a story. It's dark outside. 

Out of nowhere, my friend's face turns bright orange and she is stunned. I turned around and saw this giant fireball (at least that's what it looked like to me). I couldn't figure out what I was looking at at all, and we sat and looked puzzled as this house-wide object was literally right above us, just moving vertically upwards. 

I was so stunned that I didn't even think to pull out my phone to start recording. As soon as we realized it wasn't a flash or something obvious, I immediately started recording (a minute after we first saw it). I know I said it looked like a fireball, but that's not true. It was like I was looking at the sun and the air around it looked distorted.

Original news

Glowing Orange Orb Siting Chicago 11/2/22

Sorry, old post got removed because I didn’t include these details Location: Chicago,IL Time: 9:28CST Date:11/2/22

Context: I live in Chicago, not too far from O’Hare airport. My girlfriend and I went outside for the first time in a while to just chill out and talk. The time is 9:28pm CST when this occurred. We are facing each other and my girlfriend is telling me a story. It is dark outside. Out of nowhere my girlfriends face turns into a bright orange and she is stunned. I turned around and saw this giant ball of fire(or at least that is what it looked like to me). I couldn’t make out at all what I was looking at and we sat there staring puzzled as this object as wide as a house was literally right above us just moving straight up vertically. I was so stunned that I didn’t even think to pull out my phone to start recording. Once we realized that this wasn’t a flare or anything obvious I immediately started recording(a minute after we originally saw it). I know I said it looked like a ball of fire but that doesn’t do it justice. It looked like I was looking into the sun and the air around it looked distorted.

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Sky Lantern

Sky Lantern (Chinese flashlight, Thai flashlight) - paper flying luminous structure made of rice paper stretched on a light wooden frame, bamboo ring, burner.

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