Eyewitness: Orb Over Illinois Moved at Impossible Speeds

I think if we're being honest with ourselves, we've all seen something in the sky that just didn't seem right at some point in our lives. This just happened to an eyewitness in Illinois who noticed a small orb that they say suddenly zoomed off at "impossible speeds".

This close encounter of the Illinois kind just happened late at night on October 2, 2025

This person shared their story with the National UFO Reporting Center only minutes after the encounter happened. They say that around 11:16pm the night of October 2, 2025, they saw a white orb near Tinley Park, Illinois. Here are the exact words of what they say they saw:

"Was walking around the block and saw this orb like object that shot off to the west at a speed that I can't even comprehend. Easily a couple thousand m/s. It didn't streak the sky or appear to streak across the sky. It maintained it's size, shape, and color but shot off to the west at impossible speeds and disappeared before I could fully comprehend what took place"

Let's start with the potential natural explanations first. Tinley Park is only about 45 minutes to the south of O'Hare International Airport, so you can't rule out aircraft, but what plane or flying craft to you know of that can zoom off at that rate of speed and make no sound? I would also have said that it might have been a drone, but that still does not explain the escape velocity. By definition, that makes this Illinois orb an unidentified flying object. What it really is remains a mystery.