Jacksonville, Illinois: Police, firemen and residents watch airship with searchlight

At 10:30 p.m., policemen, firemen and many other residents of Jacksonville, Illinois, saw a bright light moving swiftly from east to west a few hundred feet in the air. The light swayed from side to side and threw out beams several hundred feet long. Above the city, the object carrying the light could be seen as metallic and long, possibly with wings, and some witnesses said they heard voices. The object reversed direction over Jacksonville, swept its searchlight in all directions and disappeared to the east. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.