Time: Approx: 10:30 p.m.
On Sunday, July 4th, 8 adults and 9 children watched a glowing orange ball move across the clear night sky at approx. 10:30pm. It seemed to appear slightly to the west of our house and then moved in a northeast direction across the sky. It moved at a steady pace, but slow enough for everyone to watch it move. It traveled in a straight line and seemed to be powered by itself, although it was completely silent. We watched it until it was out of sight.
We thought that it was a burning plane or a balloon of some sort, but it never got lower or extinguished at all – just traveled in a straight line. Shortly after that we saw, what looked like, three helicopters come into view from the northwest (probably from O’Hare area). They traveled in formation, one above the other in the direction of where the object would have traveled.
The funny thing is, after seeing the orange glowing object, we stayed outside for at least another two hours. From 11:30pm-12:30am, I did not see a single plane in the clear night sky. I usually see many planes. The next day, July 5th, I still did not see a single plane in the sky until around 5:00pm – although we heard a fighter at around 11:00am. Pretty strange.
If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.
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Saw same type of large orange object over Griffith, Highland and Munster IN traveling west above Ridge Road (1500 feet) on Thursday 6/6/12 at 9:45 pm and again 15 minutes later-2nd sighting was much higher at altitude of 5k feet and farther away - moving east to west above US 30. Object was traveling too slow for an aircraft of any type and was silent. Object had visible height from top to bottom versus aircraft having sightlines of front to back.
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