Twitter lit up with reports of a meteor or fireball streaking across the sky and seen in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kentucky.

By Illinois Patch 4-16-16

Many people reported seeing a green fireball, possibly a meteor, streaking across the sky late Friday around 10:15 p.m. Central time. The fireball could be seen from the Chicago suburbs.

Reports of the sighting also were coming in from people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, according to WGN radio news anchor Steve Grzanich from Chicago and Fox News meteorologist Chris Higgins from St. Louis.

A Fox News webcam in Belleville, IL, near St. Louis, recorded the fireball at about 10:16 p.m. [...]
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A Wisconsin witness at Verona reported watching a “hovering black object” about 500 feet off of the ground in a rectangular shape, according to testimony in Case 74442 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. The witness was driving to work at 5:44 a.m. on February 11, 2016, when the object was first observed hovering at about 500 feet.

Alejandro Rojas openminds.tv 2-24-16

“I pulled over since I noticed that the object was not moving,” the witness stated.“I noticed the object since it had four red lights on each corner and a blinking white light in the center.”

The witness first assumed the object was simply a plane at a distance, but moving closer realized it was something else.

“My second thought was that it was some sort of drone, which was not the case either since the object was rather large, about the size of a car. The next thing I noticed is that the object was sort of a transparent color, so with the dark color of the sky at 5 a.m., it appeared black.”

The object remained hovering during the entire observation. [...]
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