Unknown Flying Creature Photographed in Chicago Suburb

The Chicago Phantom Task Force received the following information from our team member Vance Nesbitt:

Thursday March 29, 2018
12:30 PM CST

As a standard routine for the company that employs me, lunch time is usually 12:00 to 12:45 PM. My job description however puts me on the road for the logistics portion of the business during those hours. With the upcoming Easter holiday, schedules have changed with some clients of ours and I happened to be at the home office in St. Charles, Il during the lunch break.

I was outside the building at 12:30 PM or very close to that time by myself.

I know by habit that my friend and co-worker Bill comes out to have a smoke around that time. I was facing south leaning against the tall guardrail in the driveway, when my attention was grabbed from the top of my eye.

I took a moment to to figure out what I was looking at and soon realized it was a bird. It had circled once in a huge diameter and before it were to head out of view. This thing was enormous. I say that by the speed in which it circled seemed so slow and it moved like a circling airplane with no wing flap.

I literally ran to my desk from outside which is only 10 feet from the outside door to get my phone in hope of getting some sort of picture. I ran back out and now I began to shake as to what I'm seeing. Just then Bill came outside and said "What?" since he saw me scanning the sky with my phone on camera mode.

It only took him a second to see it too.

This thing was flying over our heads at about 900 to 1000 feet up.

I have spent 13 years in the aviation business and it's a habit to identify planes by nature. For the business that Bill and myself do for a living, we both have a great sense of movement and judgement for distance.

I said out loud that the wingspan of this creature was at least 8 feet and I compared it to the length of a horse and or cow. Bill was wowed by it as I was too. I mentioned before that I was shaking from excitement and shock I think while trying to capture those photos. I have to say while this all took place in less than a minute (including me running for my phone) we both were left saying WTF? That was freaking huge.

I'm pretty well versed in the large bird variety around northern Illinois. St. Charles is 30 miles due west of Chicago. Sandhill Cranes are in migration right now and most all cranes fly in groups.

As a matter of fact I've never seen one solo in flight or on the ground. Herons and Egrets are more visible now with warmer weather coming as well as the Turkey Vultures. I know for certain that this creature we saw was at least double in size to the Sandhills and would dwarf a Vulture. I should include that I have seen a number of Bald Eagles here too on the Fox River which runs through St. Charles. Again whatever we saw was so much bigger and traveled what seemed so slow from south to north. The wings showed no typical fingers on the tips as the other birds mentioned have and I found that to be odd. The body and wings were a solid black in color, it was very uniformed. I did feel strongly however that this being was a bird and not a flying humanoid. Funny thing, I'm still shaking while writing this.

I'd be really interested in facts and not exploited stories about what this creature is. I am unaware of any wingspan larger than a crane in North America. I wouldn't rule out a Condor however the long thin legs trailing behind made this all the more odd.

NOTE: Vance has been a member of the Chicago Phantom Task Force since its inception. Could this have been a Thunderbird (a flying creature that has been reported in Illinois in the past)? A discussion among the team resulted in an 'unknown' assessment. I have included the original photos, plus comparison images of other large birds indigenous to the area. Any updates will be included with this post. This sighting has been added to the Chicago Phantom / Owlman / Mothman / Man-Bat / Flying Humanoid Reports - Chicago Metro Area - Interactive Map

SANDHILL CRANE

SANDHILL CRANE FLOCK

TURKEY VULTURE

TURKEY VULTURE

Have you had a sighting of a flying humanoid or huge bat-like creature in the Chicago, Illinois metro area or nearby? The entity has also been referred to as the 'Chicago Phantom', 'Chicago Mothman', 'Chicago Owlman' & 'Chicago Man-Bat.' Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com - your anonymity is guaranteed. Our investigative group is conducting a serious examination of his phenomenon. We are merely seeking the truth and wish to determine what eyewitnesses have been encountering. Your cooperation is truly appreciated. You can call me directly at 410-241-5974 as well. Thanks...Lon Strickler #ChicagoPhantom
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Pope Declares 'There is no Hell'

In another interview with his longtime atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis claims that Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just "disappear." This is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of Hell and the eternal existence of the soul.

The interview between Scalfari and the Pope was published March 28, 2018 in La Repubblica. The relevant section on Hell was translated by the highly respected web log, Rorate Caeli.

The interview is headlined, "The Pope: It is an honor to be called revolutionary." (Il Papa: “È un onore essere chiamato rivoluzionario.")

Scalfari says to the Pope, "Your Holiness, in our previous meeting you told me that our species will disappear in a certain moment and that God, still out of his creative force, will create new species. You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God. But what about bad souls? Where are they punished?"

Pope Francis says, "They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls." Read more at Pope Francis: 'There Is No Hell'

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Abducted by Black Triangular Craft

Duluth, MN - 2017-06-04: I have trouble remembering details. I was abducted onto a triangle shaped black craft. There were multiple three-foot tall gray aliens with big, slanted, black eyes and big heads. There was a leader gray alien who was around 7 feet tall. I don't remember much about being on the ship, which seems strange to me. I managed to video tape them leaving after they dropped me off. They didn't bring me back home, they dropped me off randomly outside somewhere a few miles from home. This is not the first time this has happened to me and my memory always seems hazy of the events. Sometimes memories come back in my dreams about them being doctors or something. - MUFON

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New Human Organ Discovered

Anatomy books are in need of a major upgrade, argue a team of scientists in a paper published Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports. They say the body contains a previously undiscovered network of fluid-filled pockets and collagen underneath the skin that covers most of the body and internal organs. More than that, the structure should be considered an organ itself.

The proposed organ, christened the interstitium (“interstices” being a catch-all term for the space between the structures of the body), was discovered accidentally, the researchers say.

They stumbled upon it while conducting routine endoscopies, a medical procedure that sends a small camera down your gullet in order to look at the digestive tract. Newer versions of the endoscopy, using lasers, now allow doctors to look at living tissue on a microscopic level. But when they took a peek at patients’ bile ducts, instead of finding the dense connective tissue assumed to be enveloping most organs, they saw something else: a mesh-like pattern of dark branching bands made of collagen surrounding large, fluid-filled spaces. Read more at Scientists Just Discovered a New Human Organ, and It's Filled With Secrets

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Weekend 2 Cents: Unknown 'Substances' Found in Montana Yard -- Time Slip in Old Haunted House -- Tall Black Xenomorph

Unknown 'Substances' Found in Montana Yard

Montana - 2018-03-19 07:30: We were getting ready to leave for work when observer 1 noticed a strange substance in our front yard. She then told me to come and look at this strange substance in our yard. The strange substance was noticed because it was out of the ordinary. Something told her to look in the yard. Maybe intuition but she noticed something out of place. At 1st she thought it was coffee ground and what looked like cooked rice. The substance looked like it was hot when it made contact with the yard since the snow was melted all around the substance. But there were no tracks leading up to the substance which was strange. I decided to take a picture of it before leaving for work. To me the substance looked like nothing from this earth. The black stuff looks like space rocks or some kind of debris from take off? Can't explain what the white goo is but it looks sticky and clumped together like a food of some sort. How can we get sample of the substance to an investigator so it can be tested? - MUFON

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Time Slip in Old Haunted House

“When I was living in Georgia a few years ago, a young male (early 20's) told me about an abandoned house that was about a half mile from him. He and a friend took a trip to the house went up the stairs then realized they were not in the house no more. I asked 'where were you two then?' We were in a large school with period setting. I asked about what possible time period, possibly the progressive era was a good guess. They do not know how long they were in there, but long enough to know that something was wrong. He told me they walked the halls and every room was identical. They walked into one of the rooms and sat in the classroom. Being young they did not sense any danger or what was going on. He told me that they sat there for a few minutes and then they turn around as if the stairway was behind them. He asked his friend if he wanted to go down the stairs. They went down the stairway with ease, exited the house and walked out. They hesitated for a brief moment. He asked his friend if he wanted to go back in to look around again, and the both agreed to go back upstairs. As they went upstairs again, it was like the classrooms never existed, because I knew what house he went in and it should have only taken them no more then 10 seconds to walk across from one side to the other. What I knew he did not, and that was the woman that owned the house many years ago (through records) she was a school teacher. So I do not know if her ghost was there or something and his spirit became intertwined with hers. I do not know, but it was one of the most interesting stories I have ever heard.”

Source: Youtube Comments, paul eagle1000

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Tall Black Xenomorph

Port Charlotte, FL - 2018-03-21: A larger Xenomorph looking creature saw me as I entered our screen porch area, and escaped through a missing screen lost during hurricane. It used one foot to push off, and jumped clear onto the one story roof, scattering rocks into the patio area. Then it went over the roof, I think back to the canal and escaped into the water. Dark black a little shiny large maybe nine foot, exoskeleton, looked like an ant like Xeno, it was not hostile it only looked to escape. Someone else from the house was there but I don't know who I heard the door close. - MUFON

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The Street Moved...

“I had a glitch in the world. I've lived in the same state for over 14 years. SINCE I WAS BORN, and while I was going to my friend's house, I realized something was wrong, I was on the wrong street. Somehow the WHOLE street moved over and another one was there which never knew about, which was there all this time. (MY friend says the street has always been there.) I don't know how, but it wasn't there before, somehow a WHOLE ENTIRE street was made overnight. I'm serious, like, what happened?”

Source: Youtube comments, elijah cormier

Beyond Creepy

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