UFO Sighting in Hamel, Illinois on 2018-01-27 00:00:00 – Driving south on i-55 at sunset, saw a dark structured object apparently about cloudheight, hovering to the southwest.

The following exert is an eye witness statement. Please read into it what you will. This has been reported to mufon who I am sure are investigating:

I was driving on i-55 and saw an object with apparent structure hovering during sunset. i do not know the towns near st. louis well, but google maps showed me just south of hamel, il, and the object appeared to be hovering over a city. it appeared to be hovering to the south when i first saw it, then moved a little to the southwest. i suspect that if i had been several miles to the south when viewing the object, i would have been able to see it very clearly; it did not seem to move much, if at at all, and only disappeared as i approached because of sunset.

in the sky there were a number of long, transparent clouds more to the west–i wondered if this apparent object was a cloud because it felt like it was approximately at the same altitude, but it was much darker and well-defined. once it was completely dark, i noted several planes: these seemed much smaller in the sky than what i had been observing.

at the moment i was simply reflecting on my life and looking forward to seeing my girlfriend in columbia mo. all i felt upon seeing the object was a sense that it was something unusual, but i don’t remember thinking anything else.

i provided a screencap i took of googlemaps of my exact location during this event. i attempted to take video but my phone camera was too weak to pick up the object.