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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
3,749 entries
November 16, 2021 · 3:34 PM · OVAL
Monee, IL
I saw two flying objects; one trailing white smoke and one trailing black. The objects were both moving in the same direction and looked like they were descending quickly. The second object (trailing black smoke) was far behind the first object, however, it was moving very quickly and soon passed up the first object. I thought they were planes at first, and I thought it was odd that they were so close together. I also thought that the object trailing black smoke might be a plane that was crashing because I've never seen a plane move that fast. Soon after the second object passed the first object, the first object (that was trailing the white smoke) glowed very brightly for about a minute and then disappeared. Less than a minute later, the object trailing the black smoke also disappeared. The sky was clear and the trails of smoke came to an abrupt stop. They did not reappear.
November 12, 2021 · 12:40 AM · UNKNOWN
Freeburg, IL
They were hovering and moving around in a way that was unexplainable. After I recorded the video of the one. I seen more that looked like they were moving in our direction. Still when I talk about it it gives me chills.
November 11, 2021 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Bethalto, IL
Above my house i saw 9 lights shaped in a v. I told friend to look and i said "im gonna take a picture. It was almost like it heard me because it left just as i got ready to take pic. It flew south not gaining altitude but much speed.
November 1, 2021 · 2:02 PM · SPHERE
Wadsworth, IL
I went to Van Patten Woods forest preserve and parked my car in one of the stalls. I started playing my CE5 tones for about 10 minutes. Then, I played the guided meditation which lasted about 20 minutes. When I finished, I got out of my car and began looking in the sky in a grassy field. Almost immediately, I noticed a shiny/bright circular craft hovering in the sky. It started out high in the sky and it began to lower itself. Once it went behind a cloud and peaked underneath it, it began traveling at a steady pace traveling north towards a section of the sky that had chemtrails. It slowly drifted away and faded upwards into the sky where it completely vanished. After the craft disappeared, I noticed some clouds that appeared to have letters as if someone or something wrote in the sky around the area where I first spotted the craft. Now I could be crazy but it appeared as if it spelled "America". Not sure if these ET's were giving a tour of some sort but it is quite interesting to say the least.
October 27, 2021 · 9:00 AM · SPHERE
Cicero, IL
Whitish sphere with red flashing light moving steady from east to west never changing its plane .
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.
October 20, 2021 · 7:33 PM · SPHERE
Mokena, IL
Me and my neighbor were outside on my patio relaxing and looking at the full moon. I went inside to get my camera to take pictures of the moon. As soon as I walked back outside I saw what looked like glowing orbs traveling across the sky heading north from the south. I was able to film most of them. They looked to be 500 to 1000 feet from the ground traveling at approximately 45 to 75 mph in a straight line. They made no sound.
October 20, 2021 · 7:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Ottawa, IL
I was watching the sun come on a cloudless morning. There were a few jets and some Contrails but nothing out of the ordinary until this object came streaking across the sky. The speed and robust contrail is what caught my eye at first. It was hard getting it in frame at full focus but when I did I noticed the contrail was missing something. A traditional aircraft. I did my best to get something useable but these two were it and it was gone. Horizon to horizon. To guess the exact time it took to cross would be just that. A guess. There was no sound but whatever it was it was way up there.
October 20, 2021 · 7:00 AM · OTHER
Chicago, IL
I was driving in my car and saw 1, metal object hovering above an intersection at Grand Ave and Randolph Ave, in Chicago. This object was about 20 feet long. It looked like it was made out silver metal. It was shaped like a lamp post. It had a long metal pole attached to a megaphone shape object. This object was moving around in circles and when the megaphone shape object turned toward me; I saw large circular holes in the top of the megaphone shape. It looked like it was a device to record sound but in the shape of a lamp post. I thought this item was possibly being pulled by a helicopter or a crane but this item was hovering/ floating on its own. I turned my car around and followed the object for about 1/2 minutes. It started to move horizontally and get higher in the air. It started to move North/ East and I was unable to keep up with the object. The object kept turning in circles and in no detectable pattern. There was no smoke emitted from the object. I was able to get 2 short videos of the object.
October 19, 2021 · 1:30 PM · CYLINDER
Bolingbrook, IL
On Tuesday October 19, 2021, at approximately 1:30 pm I went upstairs to my motel room to grab my phone charger. While in my room I decided to raise the blinds and see what type of view I had. After only a minute I noticed a shiny object moving in the sky off in the distance. For a second, I thought “is it a balloon”? But then I saw it moving quickly across the sky and glimmering in and out of view. It was very bright at times, then at other times it appeared to be reflecting the sunlight off a translucent or silver body. It appeared to move in and out of the clouds starting at the skyline the moving upwards and away over and over. I thought I had better grab my phone thinking this could be the real thing. I did not do a great job recording as I am unskilled and was very distracted by the object. It appeared for about ten of the thirteen minutes that I filmed. As I reviewed the video, I discovered that I could zoom in and at one point noticed it looked cylindrical, but at other times it appeared to be growing and shrinking without form like a mass of energy. It moved great distances in a way that our aircraft cannot move. I was incredibly nervous, scared, and excited all at the same time. This was something like I have never seen before. Having been in the USMC I can honestly say I have never seen anything fly the way this thing flew around today, except in the movies. I loaded it onto YouTube, it is titled “UFO IN BOLINGBROOK IL. I do not know what else to say except that there were multiple planes in the sky and one helicopter which all appeared black or as silhouettes, but this object was super bright.
October 8, 2021 · 7:30 PM · EGG
Round Lake Beach, IL
I was standing on my side porch having a smoke. On that side of my house there's nothing blocking my line of sight to the sky. At night I'm able to see a constalation or two along with a few satalights, plus Mars & Venus. It was the first Friday of October at about 7:30pm. In the distance I can hear the sound of the football game enouncer coming from the game at the Round Lake Senior highschool, where I graduated from. Just south of my house at the end of my block there's a long tree line In the distance. I saw an orange lighted object emerge from the tree line. It was followed by 2 more orange lighted objects. I noticed that they were flying in a stagurd formation. One after another cleared the tree line, first a group of 3 then 2 more followed in stagurd formation emerging from the tree line. They looked like the same shape of a helicopter except there was no type of rotor blades nor no sound. As they came closer I still heard no sound emitting from the 5 objects in the sky. They were flying about 50 feet above when they flew over my house. Part of me wanted to run in my house to grab my cellphone to capture this Amazing sight. But in that moment I was in so much shock and awe of what I was witnessing that I couldn't move. Even after they left I was still standing on my porch for a bit trying to process what I just saw. Till this day I kick myself for not having my phone on me. Now every time I am on my side porch weather it is day time or night time I keep my eyes on the sky.
September 26, 2021 · 8:13 PM · UNKNOWN
South Chicago Heights, IL
My son and I were driving home from the store in my neighborhood one night and saw these bright lights in the sky to the east. They looked odd so I drove a few blocks to where I had a better, open view of them and got out of the car to capture the video. There were three objects/orbs with very bright lights, not appearing to be moving, and they were lined up in the sky. As we continued watching, a fourth appeared in front of the easternmost object/orb and over the course of several minutes they eventually formed a ‘V’ shape, before slowly moving off to the North one by and disappearing. They seemed to be rapidly changing colors, almost strobing different colors, and there was no sound. The entire video is 9:16 but I had to split the video and upload it in two videos. I edited out the sound for profanity, as I was very excited by this capture.
September 23, 2021 · 8:41 PM · FORMATION
Dixon, IL
I was fishing on the Rock River and noticed these weird lights that made no sound but we're extremely close and kept doing the same rotation fading in and out and blanking it also had all of my hair standing on end the entire time might all sound weird but I know this was not any kind of airplane or helicopter as it was completely silent but extremely close. I also was able to get my cell phone video running and have footage of the last 3 to 4 minutes I just don't know who to show the video to and definitely not posting on video on YouTube I have the video on my cell phone and I'm sure there's technology to prove that I have no way altered it I definitely don't know how to alter edit but I'm sure you have technology to confirm it's a real video
September 15, 2021 · 11:00 PM · DISK
Chicago, IL
One disk craft without light followed by one cross craft (airplane shape) with light. I am reporting this after a year because I went through the pictures and remembered the event. Finally, I decided to report it
September 15, 2021 · 8:30 AM · CIRCLE
Sycamore, IL
Then the beam dimmed and only a residual of that light was on, about 8 stragglers followed behind.
September 3, 2021 · 7:00 PM · OVAL
Chicago, IL
A cluster of ufos were seen overhead while on a chicago river tour. Many other people on the bout tour also saw the objects.
September 1, 2021 · 6:52 PM · OTHER
Hodgkins, IL
There were no clouds outside at the time it happened at about 6:52PM. There were clouds in area at around 4PM. It was a perfect blue sky at 6:52PM. I noticed like a white tic-tac shaped object moving super slow while it was flying as high as you can fly in the sky that looked like it was headed towards the town of Willowbrook while I am in Hodgkins. I told myself watch there be another so I turned my head to the right and there was another one following it at the same height in sky and going the same speed about 4 miles apart from each other. Then noticed a low flying plane flying on the side below going the opposite way thinking maybe the passengers in plane can maybe see them if looking out window while looking up. I kept watching both at all times. I had no phone with me. Then noticed maybe the sun started glaring on the first one for a few seconds. After watching both for about 4 minutes both of them disappeared at the same time. Then as I walked off I w! alked about 700 feet away I noticed another one in sky same height in sky and same speed in sky for 8 seconds headed towards Chicago then disappeared. I told one person I saw three out here that disappeared. Then told 2 others 10 minutes later what happened. All 3 looked like tic-tacs.
August 24, 2021 · 11:45 PM · TEARDROP
Hoffman Estates, IL
I was driving home from work up Algonquin rd in hoffman estates no stars in the sky but something caught my eye, so i Gazed up and Saw this weird tear drop or tick tack looking object just cruising along. As i continued to drive i kept looking down at the road and back up to make sure my eyes were not messing with me but lucky my colleague saw it aswell. And suddenly after just tracking it for about 10 to 15min it just blips off into thin air but we could see a greenish white streak of light almost like a tail following it and it was gone. Clear sky no clouds no stars just the moon and you can see up for miles. Definitely a strange anomaly.
August 20, 2021 · 2:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Union, IL
Terrestrials coming over our house and property on a nightly basis. We have proof. Please have someone come out and verify. We need help -are getting very nervous about the situation. There are terrestrials on the ground. You need to see this.
August 18, 2021 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Libertyville, IL
I was stargazing in my back yard because it was a very clear night. I had turned off all the house lights and the stars were beautiful. I saw what I thought was a plane, with red and green lights. It suddenly completely changed direction. I thought then it must be a drone. Then it appeared to go straight up, and disappeared.
August 16, 2021 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Burbank, IL
I was in my backyard taking pictures of the clouds and then i come in and look at them and then I see them, these pictures are different days and times, I cant see them when taken pictures just when I look at them, I am always taken pictures of the clouds, hope you can see them clearly, thank you.
August 16, 2021 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Burbank, IL
I was in my backyard and taking pictures of the clouds and then I look at them and this is what I found these pictures were taking at different days and times,
August 10, 2021 · 7:16 PM
Tinley park, IL
https://youtu.be/MpbCgoJ0aAg
July 24, 2021 · 2:34 AM · LIGHT
Wheeling, IL
Unable to notice any shape. White light with hovering then fast jolty movement. There was only 1 light. Starless night with a full moon. It was just after midnight 7/23-7/24. Sky was very dark. I videotaped some of it.