April 5, 1977🇺🇸Sighting
Anomaly
Deerfield, Illinois: Pilot driving on I-94 sees silent silver mushroom-shaped object
At 2:17 p.m. on April 5, 1977, a pilot driving north on I-94 near Deerfield, Illinois, saw a silver mushroom-shaped object pass overhead and move silently toward Chicago against the wind.
Background
At 2:17 p.m. on April 5, 1977, a pilot driving northbound on I-94 near Deerfield, Illinois, saw an object coming toward him from the north, first in the distance and later directly overhead. It was a silver mushroom shape about three times the apparent size of the moon. It moved silently toward Chicago against the wind. 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.