Occurred: 3/17/2009 20:17 (Entered as : 03/17/09 20:17)
Reported: 3/17/2009 6:43:38 PM 18:43
Posted: 3/19/2009
Location: Riverside, IL
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 4 minutes

To sum it up, the object was about as bright and big as Venus was a few weeks ago moving through the sky. I thought it may have been an airplane but as it passed the brightness remained constant so I am sure it was not an airplane. There were no other lights just a bright blue-white sphere very large and very high. It was not racing across the sky just moving at a moderate speed about as fast an airliner would fly by us being that we are close to O'Hare and Midway airports.

I was on the phone with my brother at the time who lives in the same town about a mile away and he could see it also.