Appearance / Description of Object(s)

A round phere shape orb. Big in size. very Bright, with lines running zig zag all around it, but the lines was very thin.

Size of Object(s)

estimated maybe 20-30 feet tall, this was a round phere

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

70-90 feet above the tree, and the tree was a little taller than the three story building.

Description of Area / Surroundings

urban area, less than a mile from the lake front, there was no military bases, power planets. Just apartment building, homes, stores, some people out and walking, nothing special at the lakefront, WAIT! there is some kind of plant at the lakefront, if you would like to check the beach lakefront on 79th Southshore drive in Chicago, and going to Indiana following southshore drive which is route 41 is some sort of power plant there as well.

Full Description & Details

At that time I was living in a apartment on the second floor with my parents, about little less than a mile from the lake front. This is the southside of Chicago; who would have guest what I saw that night. Well I hate to say that I live in a bad neighborhood where gangs were selling drugs and drive bys happen each and every night during that summer, and you can hear a shoot fired in front of your windows most times and others down the block.

What draws me to the window after a gun was fired was to see if someone was shoot, and I would call the police. One night I heard a shoot that seemed like maybe three block away and for whatever reason I got up and went into the front room of the apartment, I look out the window scanning the block just to see, as I saw two gang banger/drug sellers standing in front of the apartment close to the entrance way of the apartment building, out the corner of my eye I saw a reflection of what I thought was the moon, I didn't turn a first as I continue to look around at the street. Right next to the apartment building was a great big tall tree that shoot up a little past the third floor of the building, in my motion of looking around I stop at the tree were my eyes I caught that reflection again, so I turn to look up at the moon since it was so bright, and there it was hoovering maybe 70-90 feet above the tree. At first I would not beleive, I could not beleive what I saw just sitting there above that tree and at that moment that I accepted what is was I moved back from the window and fell backwards, but I got right back up, for a second I thought I was crazy so I look out again and it was still sitting there above that tree no motion as I look at the leaves of the tree they were still, then I thought it was some sort of trick, or a ballon, but a ballon could not be that bright, I look down to see the two person that was in front of the building as I taped lightly on the window trying to get them to look up, they didn't hear. All that time I was press up against glass looking around I am pretty sure it was looking at me all that time, my next step was to face it and try to look in it or look for some sort of opening, as I staired the odd phere got brighter, I shook my head to try to clear my vision and staired again and this time I was not going to turn away. It took off heading in a west direction and this thing was fast, very fast as I saw it clear trees in a stright line then turned off southbound and back west. I sit there in that window for an hour to see if it would come back past the apartment, my father woke to go to the bathroom, as he passed the front room he saw me press against the glass of the window and I didn't know he was there until he said, "what's wrong with you." I toll he what I saw, I don't think he beleive me, but he beleived I saw something, because I had one hell of a strange look about me that could not be describe.

A day later I heard on the news of a sighting of a UFO that a lot of chicago people witness, but they didn't see it close up like I did. I Will Never Ever Forget It!

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

HELL NO!

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

Before I saw what I saw, I only thought I would see UFO's in star wars, close encounter, and space movies, but this thing freak me out, so I told this story only to a handful of people, and no one else, people seem to think you are crazy for seeing something like that, and I saw it somewhat close up. I must admitt that I always knew that this can not be the only planet in the universe that has life on it. Just don't make sense. And afterwards I saw it, hopeful before my end I would like to see it again. I never saw anything like it.

Other Comments

I am sure you will find article about this UFO, or maybe a down play of it. I'm sure the year was 1992, I'm sure of that because that was the year my son was born. I don't know where it came from, but I saw it go very fast to the west.

Reported Sighting?