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Centralia, Illinois (United States)

Sighted on Saturday 07. July 2018
Reported on
Shape: Round | Duration: Unsure
Source:

We just got off Amtrak from a trip. We loaded up our car and headed east on 161 toward home. I was sitting in the passenger seat and I noticed this bright light in sky. I kept watching it as it just hovered. I seen lights that wrapped around it. Something just didn’t seem right, so I started to record with my phone. After awhile I started to see a red light on the object. I’m not sure how long it was in the sky, it was there the whole time we were driving. My husband kept explaining it away, it’s a plane, helicopter, weather balloon etc....,but it did not move it just hovered. Tried to upload video, but it failed.

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