4/7/2008: Palestine (near), IL, USA

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Occurred : 4/7/2008 18:00 (Entered as : 04/07/08 18:00) Reported: 4/7/2008 9:24:16 PM 21:24 Posted: 6/12/2008 Location: Palestine (near), IL Shape: Circle Duration: 10 mins Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
Four witnesses see a large glowing circle exchanges fire with 6 fighter jets My mother heard jet noises over her home this eveining. When she looked up there was a orange-yellow glowing circle object in the night sky. It was being chased by at least 6 fighter jets. She said, if you compare the size of the UFO to the jets. The jets would be the size of the lead end of a pencil and the UFO would be the size of a half dollars. She actually saw the UFO being fired upon by the jets and returning fire. Then the UFO quickly disappeared to the west. There was 3 other people present all of them saw the same scene. The older 2 people are in there Seventies and said they had never seen anything like it before and where very surprised almost to the point of shock.

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 4/7/2008 18:00 (Entered as : 04/07/08 18:00)
Reported: 4/7/2008 9:24:16 PM 21:24
Posted: 6/12/2008
Location: Palestine (near), IL
Shape: Circle
Duration: 10 mins
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object

Four witnesses see a large glowing circle exchanges fire with 6 fighter jets

My mother heard jet noises over her home this eveining. When she looked up there was a orange-yellow glowing circle object in the night sky. It was being chased by at least 6 fighter jets. She said, if you compare the size of the UFO to the jets. The jets would be the size of the lead end of a pencil and the UFO would be the size of a half dollars. She actually saw the UFO being fired upon by the jets and returning fire. Then the UFO quickly disappeared to the west.

There was 3 other people present all of them saw the same scene. The older 2 people are in there Seventies and said they had never seen anything like it before and where very surprised almost to the point of shock.