Manuel Navarette of UFO Clearinghouse was contacted on Friday by a woman who said she had taken a photograph of a "giant bat" outside of a Best Buy in Melrose Park, a suburb of Chicago.

In an email to UFO Clearinghouse, the woman wrote:

I would like to report a sighting that I had today in downtown Melrose Park, Illinois at Winston Plaza, just outside the Best Buy store.

I was coming out of the Best Buy with my husband when we saw what looked like a large black bat that flew over the building. It must have been at least 20 feet or more up in the air and was solid black and flying very fast.

I reached for my phone to try to get a picture of it, but by the time I fished out my phone from my purse, unlocked it and pulled up the camera the bat had flown quite a distance away from us. I was able to snap one good picture of the object before it got too far away from us. I am not the greatest photographer and my cell phone is a couple of years old already, but you can see the object in the picture flying off to the west toward the city. I did not see a lot of detail as it was up in the air and flying away from us pretty fast. I do remember it was solid black, bigger than any bird I have seen and had a large pair of wings that must have been 7 feet wide.

I hope the picture helps in telling what it was or was not.