I have seen thousands of UFO reports in my lifetime, but never anything like this before. Two people have reported seeing a bizarre egg-shaped object over a lake in Illinois and they captured photos to prove it.

According to the National UFO Reporting Center site, this close encounter of the Illinois kind happened during the early evening hours of October 5, 2026. They don't mention what lake it is or what city it's near. The only location given is Illinois. Here's a snippet of what they say they witnessed. It's important to note that both of them apparently have military backgrounds:

"This object moved toward us and had two colors to it and it blended to the background when it turned. We caught several pictures that blurred. It was more of an egg like shape maybe 3 to five feet long and 3 feet high....It went back into a cove area after we became aware of its presence. And it made itself smaller as if hiding. It separated into two lights one turned red and beamed toward me and went out. The other went into the air and got on the land in the bushes and started as if it were walking…moving toward us south .it was a green light then and different shape. More rectangular. It was stopping and starting."

I have no guesses about what they saw over the Illinois lake they were at. I've looked at their pictures and their descriptions multiple times and I'm befuddled. As Mulder and Scully used to say, the truth is out there (and it might be shaped like an egg).

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