Stonington, IL UFO Sighting

Stonington, IL

UFO Sighting 1984-09-10

Friend and I were walking due south towards Old Stonington. We were about .5 miles north of Old Stonington when the object was first observed in the south-east sky. The object was observed as a result of being an unknown item in a vacant sky. The object appeared very distant (5+ miles), large, and light orange / red, but low to the ground. As we walked the object appeared rapidly moving closer and more bright. As we arrived at .2-.25 miles north of Old Stonington we stopped walking and observed the final approach of the object (we stopped and witnessed final approach for about 7-15 minutes). The object paused at its closest point and appeared to be within 300-500 ft from us at an angle between 25 and 45 up degrees from ground. The object was very large, larger than a house, estimating about the size of a football field. The shape of the object appeared to be symmetrical and oblong with a ratio of 3 high x 10 wide. It appeared that we were seeing the side of the object and maybe some of the bottom. Reddish orange lights were present in the center of the object (these lights had been clearly distinguishable well before we stopped walking). There was about 4-5 lights in the center of the object. The lights were in a horizontal line. The lights were not extremely bright and did not light the ground; but were large lights (not like a bulb, but rather a lit area). After about 5-10 minutes the center area appeared to open, like a door, opening from left to right. The center area was much brighter and whiter (faint orange). The opening and bright area was observed for about 2-5 minutes. This brighter light may have gave light to the ground and ourselves (although a specific beam of light was not observed). The light immediately went back to the 3-5 dimmer lights and the object was gone. It did not leave in a direction – it was just gone.

No sounds, vibrations, odd feelings, noises, airplanes, automobiles, or persons (other than me and friend) were observed during or immediately before or after the event.

Source: http://www.mufon.com/

Morrisonville, Il UFO Sighting

Morrisonville, IL:

UFO Sighting 2009-01-20

Driving NE on rt 48 just about 3 miles southwest of Morrisonville, I saw an object to my left just ahead of me over a field, almost true north of me. It was twilight, not quite daylight. The object appeared as a ball of light about the size of a pencil eraser. It appeared to be somewhere around 1000 feet high. At first I thought it was a star. I really didn’t think much about it. But as I drove NE, the object appeared to get bigger and to be traveling straight east at a slow rate of speed. The further I drove, the closer it got to me. I thought that it would be over Morrisonville just about the time I was going through the town. The light was a solid amber light and as it got closer, I thought I saw a dark egg shaped structure beneath it. The light was on top. The light was solid and did not blink at all. Anyway, after observing it for a few miles, it just seemed to disappear. On moment there. The next moment nothing. Gone. It just vanished. I didn’t see it speed off. It just disappeared.

It blinked out just before I got to Morrisonville. It was disappointing to me because I was curious what it was and I thought I would get a close up view of it over Morrisonville. I wasn’t alarmed at all, I was just curious.

I drove by the spot on my way home this evening during daylight hours. When I approached the area where I had spotted it this morning, I looked all around for a microwave tower thinking that maybe I had observed one of them this morning. These towers have a solid light halfway up and a blinking light on the top. Even though I didn’t observe any tower structure underneath it this morning, I thought that maybe I could have still possibly seen a tower. But after scanning the area on my way home, I found that there was no towers anywhere around. So, I don’t know what I saw!

Source: http://www.mufon.com/

Palmer, IL from Megan

Anyway, I see the post you have on the Witch’s Bridge near Anderson’s Cemetery. I have a crazy story about that Bridge. I absolutely refuse to go anywhere near there again. Earlier this month, my cousin was up from Florida and we were talking about the paranormal and I decided to take him out to Anderson’s. I’d been out there a couple times before and didn’t think anything of it. Well it was around 3 in the morning and my cousin, two of my friends and I all went out there. Nothing special happened in the Cemetery, I got a little bit of smoke like lines on my camera, but that’s it. So, we went over to the bridge and drove over it, turned around at the other cemetery, and parked right in front of the bridge. My friend and I both thought we saw a dark shape darting through the woods, but dismissed it as an animal. We all just sat there and waited, though i wouldn’t let my other friend turn the car off  just because of a bad feeling i had. after a bit, my friend asked us if anyone thought to look behind us. so we all look back and see what we thought was smoke from the car about ten feet from us. We turned back a few seconds later because of an unsettling feeling we all had and we saw the white smokey thing again…this time you could clearly see a head, shoulders,and a long skirt..and it was five feet from the car and heading tword us at a fast pace. All of us screamed and took off like a bat out of hell, but as we were going up the incline tword the road, the car started to stall, and the white figure was still behind us. We pushed the car to it’s limits and it was fine and we got out of there fast. i put it on everything i love that i saw the witch from the bridge, and she didnt look too happy to see us. I wasn’t about to find out what she would have done if she got to the car. We all saw her, noone has ever said anything about seeing her so i thought this would be an interesting story for you.  -Megan