Size of Object(s)

about 1 and a half the size of a house

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

90 to 100 feet

Shape of Object(s)

Saucer/bell shape

Color of Object(s):

Black, non-reflective, with lights

Full Description & Details

My Father, sister and my self saw a disc shaped craft, it looked like a classic "Bell" shaped saucer over Arlington Heights and Rolling Meadows.

In 1977, My Father, sister and my self saw a disc shaped craft. I was 7 at the time. We left the KFC that was on Northwest Hwy going NW in our car. As we got closer to the intersection of Northwest Hwy and Euclid, I spotted an object that hung in the sky and was getting brighter. It was "dropping" out of the sky in the north. I pointed it out to my sister who was in the car. She then asked my dad to look at it. I then replied that it was a UFO. My father refused and brushed it off as an airplane. To quite us he turned at the intersection prior to Euclid Ave. as to keep us from jumping around in the back seat since the streets he was taking had trees that over hung the road and obscured our view. As we were going down Sigwalt St. the craft was now closer to the ground, 100 ft or so. As we drove west on Sigwalt St. to the 7-11 store to get soda pop for dinner. We pulled in and my father still refused to look up and cater the whims of the 2 of us. He went in and as we stayed in the car, I remember Suzie Rossbeck, who lived up the same street as us, and some of her friends were at the 7-11 hanging out outside of it. They then saw the UFO, hovering with no sound, only the wind had picked up. The wind was strange, blowing almost upward in direction and in a circular motion. The face that Suzie made was horrific, as in disbelief that this could not be happening. Her knees caved in and her friend dropped to the ground, horrified. What I thought at the time was a "neat" thing now was burned in to my memory forever as a horror. My sister and I now wanted to go home, not in a panic, just a rush to get home. The disk moving slowly was now above the intersection of Sigwalt St. and Wilke St. My father exited the Store, as did the attendant. My father finally looked up to see the disc and was amazed and puzzled as to what he was seeing, as we all were. It moved over Rolling Meadows and slowly climbed upward, as fast as it came down. It was about the size of one and a half houses (for the area I live in) it was black on the underside, blacker then the night sky and not reflective of any light, other then the lights that it had moving on its edges. All different colors, but mostly yellow, red, and orange. As it climbed it the night sky, it was tilted in a way we saw the top. It looked like a cross between the classic "Bell" shaped saucer and the Bob Lazar Type Saucer. The top was reflecting the lights on the edges so we were able to see the surface reflecting and giving away the topsides shape. It never moved quickly and as far as I know no one else saw it, but the 7 of us. At the time in Arlington and Rolling Meadows when evening came most people were inside, I am not sure if this was covered at the time in the papers. Only a few times in my life I have talked to my sister and when I was young, to Suzie about it. My father pasted away in 1991, and my sister being sick, I thought I had to at least post this somewhere and see if anyone else knows of this.

I currently work in International Air Freight Transportation, and with the understanding I have now of the landing patterns for O'Hare Airport, I now know it can not be explained as a Airplane as it Crossed the landing pattern for the North West Runway. It was to quite to be a helicopter, and too slow to be a small plane. The only reason I can give as to why it Dipped down, close to the ground, was that the UFO was avoiding the area of space in the sky where a landing plane would endanger it and collide with it.

Keith J. Kocher

Age 35

keithjk1@aol.com

Elk Grove Village, Ill

(formerly from Arlington Heights, Ill)

Witness Background

I am 35 years old. Lived in the Northwest Suburbs Of Chicago all my life (Arlington Heights, Elk grove Village, and the surrounding area). I have worked in Retail, the nutrition industry, and currently in the International Air Freight Industry. I have some Collage under my belt.

Other Comments

I will send a sketch if you wish. If you want me to show you area it was spotted please contact me.

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