Other over Gurnee, IL
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The report, as filed
Line of Red lights Flying over Gurnee/Waukegan area
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2012-07-18 → 2012-08-04
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October 8, 2023 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Gurnee, IL
I was on the Goliath roller coaster at 9pm hour and as we approached the first drop I looked up and I saw what looked like a star (light) come to a sudden stop. It was already in motion when I looked up but I thought maybe i was imagining the movement. I remember thinking "what is that"? Then it moved impossibly fast in a sw direction and came to another stop for maybe 1.5 seconds. And then it did it again this time slightly changing direction (s) and came to a stop for another second. By then we were going down the first drop but I was totally ignoring the roller coaster while going down forst drop wherr insaw it move again. but I lost track of it since there was a moment of going into a tunnel at the bottom of the first drop. I could see that it wasn't just an orb but that the light was part of a craft. It was very high in the sky. I would say it was at least as high as one of our highest airplanes that look very small in the sky. Yet the light was still about as big as we see on of our planets in the sky from our perspective. It did not get brighter as it moved from stop to stop, no noise. It just moved across the sky without even a streak or trail of light as it moved. And it moved impossibly fast and unlike anything I have ever seen or heard of. It was fast enough to know that if anything was inside the craft, it would have been devastated by g forces. Im 38 years old and have seen alot of things, i never imagined i would ever see something like this. Therefore I am convinced that either we, humans, have secret anti gravity tech that would neutralize g forces, or there really are visitors from outer space.
February 1, 2023 · 5:48 PM · LIGHT
Gurnee, IL
Alright, LEGIT just saw TWO UAP's..... Definitely NOT PLANES... brighter one was following another that was dim, BUT still showed up on video.....took screenshots from Flightradar24 to show NOTHING was supposed to be crossing that area..... Last seen heading east over Lake Michigan Gurnee Illinois February 1, 2023 5:48 pm
July 27, 2019 · 9:26 PM · CIGAR
Gurnee, IL
My husband and I were sitting outside, enjoying a summer evening. Something caught his eye, he looked up, and screamed for me to look. We both looked and saw 3 extremely bright orange objects in the sky. They were long and not too large. He yelled for me to take a picture. I always have my cell phone with me so I took 3 pictures. Then he said, no, take a video. I switched to video mode but at that point the objects started moving quickly. We starting running from the back of our house to the front, but the objects moved quickly together and then out of sight.
November 27, 2014 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Gurnee, IL
At about 7:45pm CDT, leaving my niece’s home after a family Thanksgiving dinner in Gurnee, Illinois, as I reached my car parked on the street, I noticed two very bright yellow-orange lights in the sky. Not sure of their altitude, probably something between that of a low-flying plane but higher than a helicopter would fly, if that makes sense. The lights were in a horizontal configuration, one a good distance (maybe an inch at arm’s length) higher than the other, with the lower object slightly ahead of the other as they moved slowly from east to west. They weren’t big, maybe like BBs, but very bright. I was standing northwest of them, and they could have been a couple miles or so south of my position. Though two very distinct lights, they moved in tandem and seemed in fixed positions in relation to each other, as though connected. I didn’t see anything connecting them, nor any stars between them, but the night sky was overcast and not many stars were visible. No sound, but at that distance, unless they were jets or helicopters, I probably wouldn’t have heard any engine noise. Must admit, I’m fascinated by UFOs, but have never seen one before. However, I know enough to look for the green and red lights required for aircraft, and there was no other color in these objects except for the very bright yellow-orange color, like polished gold. As they moved west, each of the orbs seemed to have some shadow on its rear side, so they looked almost like tightly curled commas. Traveling a little farther west, the top light looked like it had a separate, smaller light following immediately behind it, possibly part of it. The color was so bright and so consistent otherwise that they looked like shiny metal structures. But whatever light they had must have come from them because there is nothing in the area to illuminate them at that height, and the crescent moon was behind them. My first thought was, “Darn, I don’t have my camera with me.” Then my niece came out of the house to bring me something I’d left behind, and we both stood there for a couple minutes watching these lights and trying to figure out what they possibly could be. She is not at all interested in UFOs, and probably thought I was little nuts being so fixated on these objects. The closest familiar object they resembled would be Chinese lanterns, but the bright color was stable, not flickering. Flares? They moved together at a level altitude straight west and I assume flares might drop or lose altitude. They didn’t have a “fuzzy” glow, even in the overcast, but were bright, hard lights. I watched these for approximately five minutes, and they moved slowly but at a perfectly steady rate across the sky, covering a distance of about eight inches at arm’s length. Then they disappeared without changing shape or size, without falling to the ground or anything. They just went out. My location would be about 30 miles north of O’Hare Airport, and the lights I saw would have been coming from Lake Michigan, possibly 10-15 miles east of O’Hare. And again, they didn’t have the FFA lights, nor anything resembling the configuration of lights that I’ve ever seen on commercial aircraft. There’s a smaller airport, Waukegan Regional Airport, about 10 miles north of Gurnee, but the lights were heading west, not north. I drove by Waukegan Airport a few minutes later, and don’t think it was even open. Have no idea what they were. Just very curious.
March 13, 2013 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Gurnee, IL
Orange/red glowing light in a circular shape
September 12, 2012 · 3:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Gurnee, IL
Strange sound that hovered in sky early in morning