Appearance / Description of Object(s)

The objects looked like lights and were shaped like or resembled stars or planets.

Size of Object(s)

too far away to estimate size

Description of Area / Surroundings

on an interstate in Illinois in a rural area outside of chicago.

Full Description & Details

My partner truckdriver and I were hauling a load of Pork in Illinois not to far from Chicago when over the radio (cb) we heard an excited truckdriver saying he was watching multiple ufo's flying and behaiving very bizzarley. He had given his location and noticing that we were only 4 miles or so from his location I looked out my window ( this was at night and the stars were out) and I clearly saw 3 different formations of lights that didnt belong there. I had my partner pull over to the side of the road (several other semi's were already pulled over here) and observed these unusual lights for half an hour. There were 3 seperate formations of them each consisting of multiple lights and they were exactly immitating the constelations of the zodiac as seen from our sky at night. Each would hold the constellation for about 45 to 60 seconds and then the lights would move around rapidly and settle down into a different constelation then it had been representing before. It was the most unusual thing I had ever seen before or since and I still have no explanation for what they were.

I am not an astonomer or anything but i have many books on stargazing and constellations and when and where to look for them and find them, and I have been an avid stargazer since i was 13 years old. At the time this happened I was looking out my telescope several times a week and I know absolutely with no doubt at all that those (stars, satellites, ufo's) were not a regular part of our sky and that they were very close to our planet although they may have been past our outer atmosphere they were certainly closer then the moon. When they were holding position they were about halfway between mars(on a good night) and venus for brightness and they were blue and white in color. When they changed positions to immitate a new constelation they moved rapidly and seemed to be able to change color.

This happened several years ago and that's all the detail I can remember.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

It's possible they were satellites because anything is possible but I do not believe they were manmade and neither did anyone else that saw them that night.

Witness Background

I was a truckdriver at the time of the sighting

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

My views on UFO's are that there are definitely unidentified lights and objects sighted in the skies of our plantet but that they may not necessarily be of alien or nonearth origin. I have watched television shows on ufo's before but haven't read much about them.

Other Comments

I would like to know if you have had any previous reports of this sighting and if there were any followup sighting similar to this one in that area.

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