Triangle over Joliet, IL
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The report, as filed
No noise.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160165). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-10-20 → 2020-11-06
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November 9, 2023 · 6:28 PM · UNKNOWN
Joliet, IL
We were on the way home my wife and two children, the lights appeared in the sky, we talked about it, took a photo and kept going home to look up what it was we might have seen. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
June 22, 2022 · 8:02 PM · CYLINDER
Joliet, IL
We were sitting in my backyard enjoying dinner. When I looked up and noticed an object moving in the clear blue summer sky. It was shiny silver, no sound like an airplane, no tail or wings. Moving at a rate of speed for you to notice. It was strange.
October 25, 2021 · 7:20 AM · LIGHT
Joliet, IL
Please note Midway airport is roughly 35 miles east of my location. This formation was not arranged for a landing pattern, nor traveling in the direction to the Airport but away.
April 26, 2020 · 11:54 AM · FORMATION
Joliet, IL
White small lights forming in straight line moving to a triangle formation back to straight line. Me and my husband saw over 15 little lights glowing and moving accordingly when they all of a sudden disappeared in the night sky.
May 16, 2019 · 2:13 AM · RECTANGLE
Joliet, IL
I was on a boat ramp near the hickory Creek near the cellar gentleman's club by myself it flew probably like 500 ft right over me I was in awe didn't even think about getting my camera I also saw four orb craft and one Chevron at the same site the craft was rectangular and I could see like piping on the bottom at the bottom was lit up red even though in the middle there was an orange flickering light hanging down it made no noise
April 28, 2018 · 4:43 PM · CHANGING
Joliet, IL
I was near a window that faces north and noticed a white object moving through sky in a southwesterly direction. What initially caught my attention was the apparent oscillating or alternating shape the object had. I stepped out to my balcony to view and it was definitely not a plane or balloon. It was, at this point, low enough to see the object alternating in appearance, yet had a slight distortion or haze surrounding it. I quickly stepped inside to gather my phone/camera. The appearance was spherical with an elongating cone shaped distortion that projected from the underside. I am estimating it was roughly 1-2K feet in altitude but it’s only an estimate. The object passed nearly directly over me and was gaining altitude as it progressed to the southwest. Its altitude stabilized when it was roughly 3-4X smaller in appearance compared to the initial time of observation. At this point the object seemed stationary relative to the ground, but may have gained additional altitude. Then it slowly moved east and it was visible for another 3-4 minutes. I took my eye off of it for a second and could not re-acquire. The entire sighting lasted from 16:43 to 16:52 I took photos throughout the observation. The initial 4 photos that were taken in fairly quick succession (within a few seconds) reveals two cycles of the alternating shape. Subsequent photos appear to be too distant to resolve much detail; however I have not down loaded to a computer for better viewing.