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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.
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December 1, 2020 · 5:58 PM · LIGHT
Granite City, IL
I was standing in my backyard and when I turned around and looked up I saw two bright round lights hovering above me with no sound and they turned in unison and slowly went up. In around 4 more seconds, the ufo rapidly disappeared. I didn't have time to grab my phone/camera before it disappeared and was wondering if anyone else in Granite City seen it too.
November 20, 2020 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Naperville, IL
At approx. 0330, I stepped outside to take a look at the sky. Looking to the north, I noticed an "extra" star in the bowl of the Little Dipper, between the stars Kochab and Pherkad. I estimated the brightness to be about second magnitude. Being not quite fully awake, my first thought was, "That planet is out of place". After a moment, I realized what I was thinking, came fully awake, and started watching the light. After approx. two minutes, the light simply faded out over a period of about three seconds. I've observed probably hundreds of satellites and the ISS over many years and the thing that strikes me was the total lack of motion against the fixed stars before it faded out. I suppose though that might have been a projection effect. I noticed no aircraft in the area, shy was clear, and wind was calm. Heavens Above site showed a pass of "US3A07" but the timing was somewhat off and there was no track, contrary to that predicted on HA.
November 14, 2020 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE
Lemont, IL
There is objects in the sky that at first looked like stars but then when I looked closer it was lights that were blinking . Been watching it for about a week sometimes couldn’t take picture or video because it would be kind of far away but today I did. The objects move sometimes forward sometimes in circular motion and today when I started filming it seems like it started coming down every time I looked at it through the window. At first I taught maybe it’s drawn or something but it seemed weird that the sky is full of them. And when I took a video and photo it looks like it has some kind of aura it changes shapes, kind of hard to describe.
November 13, 2020 · 5:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Rockisland, IL
I seen what looked like a flock of birds flying but as it got closer it was perfect triangle with dim lit lights moving in unison. If it were a car on the ground I'd say it was moving about 40-50 mph. It made no sound at all. There was a helicopter off in the distance that you could hear and it was going the opposite way. The ufo was traveling from Illinois to iowa.
November 9, 2020 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Millstadt, IL
On November 9, 2020 (around 21:00) I was outside sitting on my back deck. I always look up at the stars when I am outside. There weren´t a lot of stars out on this particular night. While I was looking in the sky, I saw something that caught my eye. I saw an odd form that was in the shape of a triangle that had two circular lights in the back and one in the front. The lights were not bright but dim, and were located in the pockets of the triangle. As I was trying to get a better look at the object, I noticed that it was moving at a smooth, medium pace. I only saw it for less than 30 seconds before it disappeared behind the roof of my house, heading eastbound. I sat there and contemplated what I saw...Was it a plane? Did I just see a UFO? With my luck, my answer to that was ¨Thereś no way I just saw a UFO or possibly anything!.¨ I knew it wasn´t a plane because of the shape, the speed it was traveling, and the lights being dim (plus there were no blinking lights like there are on planes). After a few minutes, I still sat there wondering what I just saw. The night after it happened, I wished that I would have drawn a picture of what I witnessed. I finally did this evening. Without explaining the picture I drew, I showed it to my brother. As soon as he saw it, he said that it looked like a UFO that he saw on a documentary he watched, going into significant details of the UFO that was spotted in IL 20 years ago (actually in the same town I spotted it). I have another brother who lives in Vegas, and I texted him the picture, JUST the picture. He responded right away with ¨Yeah. The UFO over Millstadt.¨ Before this ¨sighting¨ I had never heard of the shape of the object nor seen it. My brothers knew what it was before I even did, just by my amateur drawing. I watched the video on YouTube, UFO Over Southern Illinois. The description of the object seen 20 years ago described the one I saw on November 9, 2020, not too far from the first sighting in 2000.
November 5, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
SOUTH BARRINGTON, IL
A plane from Ohare was flying nearby which gave a good perspective that it was not an airplane. I personally think it is a low flying satellite that may be used in bioterrorism spreading covid virus. I saw a similar light craft last month in Lake Geneva Wisconsin and nobody could figure out what it was either. The fact that I have seen this again is alarming. I think the military should investigate.
November 4, 2020 · 6:00 AM · SPHERE
medinah, IL
I saw orbs of light. I saw one a while ago when it was visible a beach ball wit. red leds small. they cloak as invisible showing a one dimensional circle of clear light moving kinetically
November 3, 2020 · 9:00 PM · EGG
Chicago, IL
While sitting outside last night, I witnessed a seemingly low-flying egg-like object move incredibly fast through the sky. The view from my 3rd story deck spans from northeast to southwest, and the object crossed the entirety of that view in a span of about a second and a half, similar to the speed you might witness in a shooting star. In trying to judge how high it was flying, I can compare against the backdrop of skyscrapers I see southeast from my location, and it appeared to be flying at perhaps the height of a helicopter (there was also a great deal of helicopter action in the sky last night due to the election). I was also able to make out in that brief moment that it was an elongated, oval or egg-like shape, which also suggested it wasn't flying terribly high. Additionally, I saw it pass in front of my view of several of the skyscrapers of downtown Chicago, which are between 1-2 miles south of me. The object itself was egg-shaped from the brief glimps! e I got, and it glowed. There were no distinguishable individual lights on it, and nothing blinking. A very large tail of light followed behind it, perhaps due to speed. The light was bright, but not blinding. It moved in a gently arced, horizontal line, not straight across the sky. There was no sound as it passed, which struck me as peculiar given its incredible speed and seemingly low-flying position. It traveled from east to southwest, disappearing from my view as it flew past the visual barrier I have of the exterior wall of my building that defines the end of my outdoor space. My husband and neighbor were also outside, but by the time I could shout out, the object was already gone. I would be extremely curious to hear if anyone else had a similar sighting.
November 3, 2020 · 4:35 PM · OTHER
Lexington, IL
Driving on I-55 South-Southwest near Lexington, IL: noticed 5-6 sliver like objects in sky, similar in appearance to exhaust trails from a jet airplane. One in upper right quadrant of view, higher altitude than other 5. After 3-4 minutes of watching the close one, noticed the location had not changed. Other farther objects were all similar shape, but oriented in different rotations in respect to the ground. Objects appeared slightly orange-white, with some amount of reflection from either setting sun or refracted light. Estimated to be about 10,000-15,000 feet above ground at first sight, and around 10 miles out, moving in a very steady West-Northwest pace. After 5 minutes, I exited to get on an East-West bearing country road, only one object remained, which had crossed from the North to the South of this road, but slowly getting farther away from field of vision. At around 4:50, remaining object was gone from field of view, too far in the Southwest! sky. Observer is a licensed architect with the state of Illinois, living in Chicago and traveling to visit Mother at time of sighting. No previous observations of UFO sightings.
October 29, 2020 · 12:00 PM · OVAL
Park Forest, IL
I was driving in a car with another passenger, around noon on the approximate date of October 29th/30th of 2020. We were at Sauk Trail and Western Avenue where I noticed a white oval/rectangle shape moving in the sky west to east. It had no other color to it. The closest object I can think of that it looked like was a helicopter but it was all white which most helicopters are not. It then moved along going lower to where it disappeared behind trees and was no longer visible. It did not move any faster than a usual object in the sky such as a helicopter or plane but it was very unusual and of a single white color. It was absolutely not a cloud. It made no audible noise, no lights of any kind, no unusual speed, in fact the thing most strange about it was just that, that it was of such uniform color white/off white. The shape was also strange as it appeared generally close but looked like a roundish oval blob. We both saw the object and are very perple! xed by it.
October 24, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR
Rolling Meadows, IL
cigar form ship , 3 light on board 2 on corners on in center. speed was so fast . was fog around ship . also size of ship close to empire state building. visually was moving from rock ford city to Lake of Michigan way.
October 23, 2020 · 1:24 AM · TRIANGLE
Joliet, IL
No noise.
October 22, 2020 · 6:21 PM · RECTANGLE
Lincoln, IL
It was a rectangular shape, it was flying a bit above aircraft height and was white and blinked an occasional blue and red. It was fairly small and extremely fast. The UFO appeared to be shooting out things that looked light lightning out from behind it but instead of it going down it made a trail behind them for about three 5 seconds before disappearing. The lightning thing appeared white with a blue outline and was extremely thin. There was only one UFO. We were laying on a trampoline stargazing when my sister pointed it out to me, it was dark and cloudy so the UFO really stuck out. We watched it until we thought it was getting to close and left. We couldn’t figure out what it was, we’ve never seen anything like it.
October 16, 2020 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Oak Lawn, IL
I looked out the window and seen bright red flashing lights in the sky moving at a very fast pace, I knew it wasn't an airplane or anything that I have ever seen before. As I got closer to the window it just disappeared from the sky like poof, gone! It was closer to the ground, it was not very high up in the sky either.
October 13, 2020 · 3:50 AM · FLASH
Bloomington, IL
They were rotating, Giving off beam's of light, They seemed like they were looking the for something. They were hovering over the airport and then moved farther out. They were flashing different colors, The Two bigger ones were brighter than the two small one's. And they all were flashing colors. The smaller two were reddish brown and also had a teal color to them that flashed, as if they were taking pictures of some sort. I know they were spacecraft's and not airplanes or helicopters I seen an airplane and it made a major wide left turn. the helicopter slowly turned around. I believe the helicopter was military it only had one light and it was blinking red. Unfortunately i couldn't see the shape but i knew when it was a UFO when i noticed two extra bright light's in the sky and no sooner then i look they zigged and then figured eight i immediately told my two friends to look.
October 8, 2020 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Quincy, IL
I was leaving my work this evening. I'm a broadcast meteorologist & amateur astronomer. A bright light, about twice as bright as Venus, caught my attention in the northwest sky. This light was not moving, about 40 degrees above the horizon directly northwest. It gradually faded after about 12 seconds and still did not move. I ruled out any satellite flare or ISS transit.
October 8, 2020 · 8:04 PM · TRIANGLE
Waterloo, IL
Tonight I went outside to watch for shooting stars as part of the Draconid Meteor Shower with my son - 4 yrs old and my daughter - 8 years old. We had about 20 minutes to play with before they had to go to bed. We had a star tracker app that had notified me of the event. The area of the sky that according to the app we were supposed to look was almost straight up, our necks got sore, and we got impatient soon. My daughter and I started to think we were seeing bright flashes of light in different areas of the sky. Then in the southern sky we both saw what looked like a super bright star, pulse on, then quickly off. It did this just twice. We were discussing it excitedly when I notice an aircraft with only a dim light “around” it moving from our right or east heading west toward Scott air force base located about a 40 minute drive from us and shortly it crossed right over the spot in the sky where we saw the pulsating “star”. Periodically we see milita! ry aircraft crossing over our town and my wife has seen a B2 bomber overhead here once or twice. I then noticed two air craft behind it that had typical strobing indicator lights on them and as all three got closer it became clear that the two air craft in the rear were jets and were following or escorting the first aircraft. Do stealth b2 bombers fly with no indicator lights in US skies ordinarily, not from what I was able to find online? What was the dim warm light that seemed to at least partially surround it mysterious first air craft? There was a combined strangeness to it all: I had just said a prayer for us to see something (I was thinking a shooting star, but), a mysterious briefly strobing star caused us to look around to see the unidentified air craft, said air craft crossed the same approximate spot we had seen the strobing star, and the first aircraft had not indicator lights. Though I did not get a recording, I did attempt to record it with my phone, but! all I have for some reason is a single photo with a streak of! light a t the bottom.
October 4, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, IL
Witness fails to provide detailed information about the sighting. PD
September 21, 2020 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Vernon Hills, IL
I saw one green ball of light that zoomed off in a forward direction away from me and instantly disappeared all in about a seconds time. The object seemed to be much closer to the ground than a meteor, I would guess that it was about as close to the ground as a helicopter usually is. The object did not appear to be very large, even though I was far away and am not certain, I would guess that it could not have been bigger than a helicopter. The object also had no smoke or dust trail. The color of the object was a bright green, slightly darker than lime-green. I was the only observer of the object. I am 20, live in Vernon Hills, and I am a full time college student at Depaul University in Chicago.
September 19, 2020 · 12:11 PM · OTHER
Lockport, IL
Source of report provides no detailed information about the sighting. PD
September 12, 2020 · 12:11 PM · LIGHT
Lockport, IL
Source of report provides no detailed information about the sighting. PD
August 31, 2020 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Holiday Shores, IL
On my way home from work I happened to look up and seen a Triangle shaped object with 1 red light and 4 white blinking lights.I started recording it on video and stopped to let a car pass after 2 minutes,i began to start recording again and it just stayed hovering after a minute it began moving slowly southeast i had my window down and heard a low humming noise as it was slowly heading south..I began driving but watching in my rear view mirror and could still see it blinking for about 3 miles before I lost sight
August 29, 2020 · 10:30 PM · DISK
Sycamore, IL
Not that well versed in use of computer. I could send a very detailed description in an e-mail. A ufo was reported that same night in Belvidere, Il, earlier in the evening. I saw it drop 4000 feet to land in 1 second.
August 29, 2020 · 9:30 PM · DISK
Belvedere, IL
I was driving and saw a circular dark disk-like aircraft with multiple lights on the underside. It was flying low and looked like it was making a landing in an open field. I drove past before I could see it land.