Three Illinois children report being surrounded by “a perfect rectangle of green flashing lights” with no apparent source while experiencing a feeling of being targeted and a “strange warmth,” according to April 26, 2011, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

While walking to one of their homes, the three pre-teens report stopping when they realized they were surrounded by green flashing lights in a triangle formation. The lights also “seemed to pulse.”

“They were moving around us, and I remember feeling like they were targeting us, almost as if they were tracking our location and movements so we could be captured without injury,” the reporting witness stated. “There were at least three of us standing on that corner, and at the same time (after about two minutes beneath the lights), we all screamed and started running like we had never run the last block to the safe refuge of our friend’s house.”

The three talked about the experience when they arrived at their destination.

“When we got there, we all compared how we experienced it and found that all of us felt the same things – like they were targeting us, and we all noticed that when the lights passed over our flip-flop exposed toes, we felt a strange warmth coming from them that was uncharacteristic of a still summer evening. Not to mention that this heat was focused solely on the patch that it covered, and the heat vanished the second it moved.”

All three witnesses looked up to see what the light source was and could not see anything.

“This meant that there was no possible way they had been from a plane or jet, because we obviously would have seen and heard it.”

When the witnesses ran, the light moved away. The incident occurred on July 13, 2010. No town name was mentioned in the public portion of the MUFON report. No images or videos were included with the report.

Illinois is a current UFO ALERT 5 rating, with a low number of UFO sightings nationally. Illinois had 8 UFO reports in March 2011 – while California had 45 sightings, the highest reporting state in the nation.

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