Oakford, Illinois (5-25-2007)
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Witness Testimonial
It was a evening in May. Clear sky out in the country and two and three star like objects where moving at a fast speed and doing circle loops and triangler loops in the air. They was all over the place. Then the came to a stopping hault in the sky and lights came on almost like lights of a cars head lights is what it looked like and it lasted three or four seconds and the just turned off and starting moving in a crazy pattern like they was lost. They would fly real fast to the south and then back real fast to the north then east and west. I cannot explain what it was, after this all took place about fifteen minutes after there was three jets like military loud jets flew over like they spotted something on the radar.
It was really weird. Last night we say the same three stars again but without the flashing lights. They was coming from the west and just acted like they was playing around in the air again. It wasn't a plane. I am sure of that.Please help me figure out what I saw and my oldest son and husband saw.When all this happened we was sitting in the house and my son came down stairs and said he saw some lights outside his bedroom window, so we went outside and saw nothing at first but then when he saw it again he begged me to come out and look and thats when I saw them.They was like two stars then a third came about.I was stund, scared and freakedout alittle because I couldn't explain what they were. They finally just disappeared after a hour or so.
Official MUFON Illinois Report
6-27-2007
Date of Event: May 25, 2007
Time: 10:15pm
Oakford, IL
Latitude: 40.10 N, Longitude: 89.96 W
It all started in the evening of May 25, 2007 with April Lauriks son running downstairs from his bedroom screaming for his mom to look outside. He had looked out his window and noticed huge bright lights in the sky that looked like headlights of a car moving from West to North. By the time April and her son ran outside the bright lights had disappeared. They sat in the yard staring at the sky. They noticed an airplane with it’s flashing colored lights. Then they notice 2 non-flashing white lights that looked like stars moving erratically in the sky. As she described it, “They looked like they were doing loopty loos”. The lights stayed equally apart the whole time. She described them as getting brighter then dimmer but not flashing. Then all of a sudden it looked like they turned their headlights on shining directly towards April and her son. The color was orange/yellow and very, very bright. Minutes later the bright lights went out and it went back to looking like the two star type lights. Then they disappeared. This event lasted a total of 30 minutes.
April and her son sat and watch the sky. Then in the west they saw 3 lights. They were non-flashing and in a rectangular shape. The 3 lights starting doing circles in the sky, moving to the south and then disappeared. The lights were very high in the sky. She couldn’t estimate the height.
A few minutes after the triangular lights disappeared they witnessed 3 jets that seem to be traveling in a pack flying at a very high rate of speed in the direction of the lights. The jets seem to be at a lower altitude than the lights were.
April and her son suffered no ill effects from this event. April did state she suffered an urinary tract infection soon after witnessing this event but doesn’t believe it is related. They have 2 dogs who love to run through the yard but during this event the dogs would not leave the front porch. They both described a feeling of being dumbfounded.
April’s husband walked outside in the evening and was looking up into the sky when he noticed 2 lights moving through the sky doing circles. He called for April and his son to come look and asked them if this is what they saw before, which it was. After a few minutes the lights disappeared and nothing else happened that night.
April told me that if they notice this phenomenom again they were going to take notes and call me. If it seems like there is a pattern I’m going to try to go and see if I can witness this myself.
Debbie Lowery/MUFON Illinois Assistant State Director
Credits
Special thanks to MUFON.
