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UFO. United States

ID #1604929567
Added Mon, 09/11/2020
Author July N.
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Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
14.12.1978 17:30
Location: 
Парк-Ридж, IL
United States

There were two close encounters. 

Two 12-year-old girls from Park ridge were sledding in a city Park when they saw a plate-shaped object with a row of flashing red lights on top and bottom and yellow lights in between. There were 3 balls on the bottom. 

It hovered for 20 minutes and then made a semicircle in the sky before leaving. 

Original news

Date:  December 14 1978
Location:  Park Ridge, IL
Time:  5:30 PM.
Summary:   Two close encounters occurred. Two 12-year-old girls in Park Ridge who were tobogganing in the city park saw a saucer-shaped object with a row of flashing red lights on the top and bottom and flashing yellow lights in between. It had 3 balls on the bottom. It hovered for 20 minutes, and then made a semi-circle in the sky before leaving.  
Source:  George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, pp. 543 & 549; Park Ridge (IL) Herald, December 21, 1978

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