23 May 1983 19:30
McHenry, Illinois, USA
Art Teacher incident.
Disc with black top, blue sides, square windows, and red-gold metallic bottom, maneuvered over trees, rocking violently, levelled off, followed contour of land. An object was observed. It moved with a falling-leaf motion.One multi-colored disc, around 1500 feet away, was observed by two witnesses in a rural area for two minutes. No sound was heard.
Hynek rating: CE1: Close Encounters of the First Kind
Vallee rating: MA1: A UFO has been observed which travels in a discontinuous trajectory. i.e. vertical drops, maneuvers or loops.
Vallee reliability rating: 332: Reliable source, firsthand; site visit by a reliable investigator with some experience; natural explanation requires major alteration of one parameter.
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