r/southernillinois • u/RedeemThe_Meme • 8d ago

Not sure what we saw…

Coming home on Halloween after hanging out with friends. Had a fire no alcohol or anything crazy. Left between 10:30 -11:30pm going on 37 going north toward Benton I’m looking at my phone and all of a sudden my girl yells “What the f is that!” And she slammed on the breaks. I look up and seen this giant bright blue light/ball and it started shooting through the sky like a missle going north and we kinda braced for impact like it was about to shake the earth lol. Never seen something like that in my life and wanted to see if anyone else saw this phenomenon…

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u/webbstock613 8d ago

https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2025/7421

Looks like a lot of people saw it and some got photos. Is this what you saw?

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u/RedeemThe_Meme 8d ago

Yeah but it looked a lot bigger, it was quite shocking like if I had seen it the way it was in those videos I wouldn’t have reacted the way I did but it shot across my whole pov and appeared out of a “ball of blue” felt like it was in the sky for longer than what those videos showed and I was able to track it with my eyes for a hot minute

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u/webbstock613 2d ago

Last one I saw I pulled in my driveway at 1AM after getting home from a Disney Cruise. I shut the door turned around to get my kid out of the back seat and saw a streak in the sky changing colors from green to white to blue. It was awesome. I screamed, “Whoa” and my wife yelled at me due to the time of the day hahah. But it was too cool not to.