I saw another one of these back in the year 2010 it was heading south West coming out of the north sky and it was moving slow but no more than 5 seconds did I see it and this thing was bright yellow as yellow as the sun and look like it was on fire and it was his big as a barn and once again I thought it was an airplane crashing into a cornfield and it went right over my head it wasn't on the horizon it went right over me but I heard no sound except like a swish and I expected to see a giant flash and hear a crash but it disappeared before it hit the horizon in the south West sky of Amboy Illinois. And I know that's what it was now so I've had the lucky opportunity to see two of these in my life I'm 100% positive that that was what it was based upon the questions you asked here for the last 16 years I had no damn idea what I saw but it was so traumatic dramatic rather then I called the Whiteside county airport to report it and tonight I called Charles Walgreens field to see if they saw it on the radar because at first I didn't know what it was I thought it was maybe a UFO I was lucky enough to see two of these in my life and I but at the same time I've experienced throughout my life some of the most insane bizarre things that nobody else believes me and it is annoying because I'm always alone and I'm not sure why I've seen so many crazy anomalies but I just have I swear that this report is true and I have described it to the absolute best of my ability your questionnaire form did a great job of allowing me to do that and then allowing me to feel confident in what it was I saw and solved a mystery for me that has bugged me my hole well not my whole life with the last 16 years one of the one of the mysteries anyway I have one more thing to say in case anybody would be interested in you know these things from wherever it came from in the winter of 1997 roughly I can't remember if it was 96 or 7 I was 5 mi south of Amboy Illinois had a family cabin approximately at Morgan road and the Green River and I saw a green light almost like St Elmo's fire except the size of a truck come down straight down and I mean straight down and it went into the woods and it lit the entire woods up and it hovered in the middle of the woods it was impossible that it could be there though because the woods are so thick and impossible that it hovered but it was no gas Noel saying I almost fire it came from way above in the atmosphere and it stayed in the woods for 5 minutes at least and I was fascinated and terrified at the same time and I wanted to go into the woods after it but something told me not to and it lit the entire place up of course once again I was alone and then about an hour later I heard this blood curdling scream in the pitch darkness the green neon light was no longer there and it was dead quiet out there was probably 2 foot of snow and the sky was super bright with stars and a moon at this point the earlier there wasn't that and I heard it again and again
Location
Address
Dixon, IL
Latitude
41° 50' 21.65'' N (41.839347°)
Longitude
89° 29' 33.1'' W (-89.492527°)
Elevation
202.558426m
Time and Duration
Local Date & Time
2026-05-18 00:15 CDT
UT Date & Time
2026-05-18 05:15 UT
Duration
≈3.5s
Direction
Moving direction
From up left to down right
Descent Angle
117°
Moving
Facing azimuth
123.66°
First azimuth
275.86°
First elevation
35°
Last azimuth
305.39°
Last elevation
5°
Brightness and color
Stellar Magnitude
-20
Color
Green
Concurrent Sound
Observation
No
Remarks
-
Delayed Sound
Observation
Yes
Remarks
It sounded like delicate thunder is the best way I can describe it and it had a percussive sound at the beginning and then hit trailed off as if it was fading. It was the biggest thing I've ever seen I thought it was an airplane on fire crashing at first so much so that I called the local airport in Dixon to see if they saw it on a radar and but I couldn't figure out why it was green like almost neon green and it kind of looked like an airplane like it had wings I can't even explain it more than that the event happened like maybe maybe three seconds but probably not even that long but it was the coolest thing I've ever seen in my lifeBme cuz I didn't know it also scared me because I didn't know if I saw a plane crashing a meteor or a UFO
Persistent train
Observation
Yes
Duration
2s
Length
10°
Remarks
It was Green glowing not smokey and it turned white and maybe a little bit yellow like there was a yellow ball in the trail not in the meter itself in the media the fireball of itself in the center it looked almost White but the rest of it was like neon green glowing like it didn't light up the sky but it did at the same time nobody else was around to compare it with I might be the only person in Dixon has saw it. It was long I'm not sure what you mean by the degrees in the fisted arms length this thing had the trail behind it the whole time and it as a matter of fact I think I saw the trail first is what caught my eye and then I followed the the fireball with my eyes heading downwards coming out of the Southwest sky heading what looked to be Northeast and I thought for sure it crashed in the neighborhood across the river because it was it came that low I it scared the crap out of me and by that you know when I first saw it it was not super high it was already low I mean it looked high it looked like if you were driving on interstate 88 and you see the Sears Tower it looked that high except Sears Tower looks very far off in the distance this look like it was freaking 10 streets over I know it's an optical illusion but it looked close enough that it scared me and I thought it hit a house or something but then it worked up like it took off and I thought oh my god did I see that UFO
