UFO News Article:
“ ‘Acrobatic’ UFO has blinking lights”, 
18 October 1973
(The Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, Missouri)

This is an article regarding multiple UFO sightings (by police officers and civilians) over different parts of Illinois:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=21kfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xdgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2720,4694006

Robert Shumaker, the police chief of Waverly, sighted a UFO on 17 October 1973.



















Map of Illinois
(citytowninfo.com image)