SIGHTING: ALMA, ILLINOIS (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"I saw a facebook post by a neighbor who said he saw an unexplained red light in the sky. i then checked my surveillance video which happened to be aimed at that section of sky and found the light he described. while watching the video, i noticed the camera had an unexplained loss of about 30 seconds of time, shortly after, the camera was affected by some kind of electromagnetic disturbance, and after another longer period of missing time, the red light (appearing a dimmed white in the night time infrared video) blinked into view. it lasted a couple seconds and then fainter lights could be seen blinking in and out of view in the surrounding sky. then the main light came back on before the view became "normal." i found it oddly coincidental that the cameras experienced loss of time, rather than just go black as if the power had gone out, and then the light suddenly appears afterward. this particular camera has been very reliable in its performance. the fact that the event was noticed by someone else (and photographed) several hours before i investigated the video footage tells me that none of these lights and camera behavior were caused by the equipment, but recorded a real event in the sky."