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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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August 29, 2020 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Payson, IL
My wife, Barbara and I were sitting in the backyard enjoying the sunset looking due west. Clear conditions, sun at the horizon, no haze, light N breeze. Just a few degrees South of the sun, which was sitting on the horizon and at about 30 degrees angle above the horizon, (about where the star Diadem would be - I checked that location on my star chart on my phone) we saw a dim "star" appear. It remained stationary throughout the entire sighting that lasted about 5 minutes (or so it seemed). It slowly got brighter until it gleamed like the sun reflecting on a jetliner fuselage, brighter than any star. And there were no other stars in the sky. The moon was behind a cloud bank behind us and to the south. The light dimmed slowly back to very faint, then it ramped up again to the metallic bright gleam for a few moments, and then faded slowly until it was barely visible. I looked at the Star Chart to confirm the name of the star in that location as a way describe the light, and when I looked for the light again,it was nowhere to be seen and did not reappear.
August 23, 2020 · 8:08 PM · LIGHT
Morton Grove, IL
I am professional firefighter, former Soldier, and amateur astronomer. I saw a bright red light in the Western sky. Approximately 275 degrees, 15 degrees elevation. Brighter than Venus. Laser red. Initially stationary, then suddenly accelerating to the South. This is exceptionally unusual, because it is opposite to the current direction of commercial air travel out of O'Hare Airport at this time. I confirmed that no plans were visible on Plane Finder software at the time. Color remained uniform after the change of Direction. No strobe. At about heading 225, the object disappeared. Object reappeared approximately 7 minutes later, and followed the same pattern. Again, definitely not a plane. Object was seen below the cloud cover, which was approximately 20000 ft. This was immediately following a storm weather event. Alternatively, it could have been a Hobby drone. But I ruled this out, because of the ambient light at this time of night is prohibitive to flying! an RC aircraft. Thank you for your time.
August 21, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
I was leaving a friends home in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago and happened to be looking up and witnessed a bright green light fly across the sky. It was moving Northwest and very fast. It did not have a trailing tail of light behind it and looked like a very fast moving drone or craft of some kind.
August 21, 2020 · 9:05 PM · SPHERE
Tinley Park, IL
We went out in back yard with dogs and my sister asked if I seen the red light? I saw the red orb come over the tree in my back yard, I said that is the ufo again, I have seen them before. This time there was just one and it was suddenly coming right up over us and we were both looking up at it. Then the light went out and I could see the actual craft hovering there and it looked just like a flying saucer out of the movies. We both watched it move east towards the High school and for another 20 sec. then it shot off. No noise no sounds, there was a low flying plane above it flying south. Yes it was a very surreal experience. hard to grasp what you are seeing. It is absolutely proof to me that something is out there checking on us but for what I do not know.
August 16, 2020 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Alton, IL
Standing on my front porch, facing south out over the Mississippi River, I observed the following over Missouri. There was a twinkling/flashing green light, hovering in the distant sky. The light changed to constant red and the object sped at a high rate of speed off to the west. It disappeared behind trees blocking my view. About 20 to 30 seconds after that, there was a faint high-pitched whine and another red lighted object appeared in the same location as the original green light. It sped in from the east, came to an abrupt stop and then sped at a high rate of speed to the east. It then stopped and abruptly reversed direction to the west. Again, the high-pitched whine and disappeared behind the trees. Again, about 20 seconds later, another red light appeared in the same location. It was accompanied by a high-pitched whine and continued from the east and headed west. In total, I observed this very same event five (5) times. All moved at extremely high speed. All produced a high-pitched whine. All zoomed off to the west. This all occurred over Missouri.
August 14, 2020 · 9:00 AM · CYLINDER
ALSIP, IL
White cylinder object no wings, no means of propulsion, no sound, size of Farmer's propane tank. Flying due South 1000 feet in air makes a turn straight up into air rapidly accelerates and is gone. Saw again 2 days later heading due North 1 mile East of previous sighting, this time in afternoon.
August 11, 2020 · 11:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Mundelein, IL
Black shimmering triangular Object flying north to south slowly. Then slowly flew straight up until disappearing.
August 8, 2020 · 2:30 PM · FORMATION
Lockport/Romeoville, IL
I was doing food delievry late at night to Lockport,IL from Romeoville at a little after 2am and I saw a string of lights low in the sky about 12-14 all in a row very close together. I have seen the starlink satellites before and these were much brighter and low in the sky below the clouds. It almost looked like a straight line of lights with a very small space imbetween like a straight line of lights lower than an airplane would fly. When I turned at the intersection I tried to look back and I couldn't see them anymore.
August 6, 2020 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Iuka, IL
My wife's alarm went off to get ready for work. I got up to have a cigarette and heard a humming sound when I cracked the door open. As I step out the noise gets more quiet. I look up above me and about 15 feet up was a sphere, it was by the tree and above my well.I got a good look at it. Best description is fire in the sky but it wasn't fire the inside had orange, red and yellow colors that were spinning almost looked like a galaxy inside as the whole thing flashed also, but it was not glass it was like translucent metal a very advanced small flying device not from this planet for sure. It went straight up then to the left in the opening above my trees, at this point I grabbed my dog and put the dog inside I felt threatened. I put the dog in and looked out the door and didn't see it. I stepped back out and seen it had moved closer to the house but above the tree. I just got a new phone and was trying find the camera and it moved back left in the opening.I s! tayed close to the door as it went straight up and to the left, then it went to the right above my trees slow and I had the door held open at this point, when it was out of my view I got back inside and told my wife. I went back out and it was gone last I seen it was headed west. It was a little bigger than a bowling ball maybe beach ball size and made sense on how it was flying it could sit still move any direction quick or slow. This was way too advanced to be ours it's not from this planet. My dog would not go outside in the morning she was scared to go out and refused. We live way out in the country it had no business here.
August 5, 2020 · 11:35 PM · OVAL
Sycamore, IL
I was driving home from my sisters around 11:30pm at night Wednesday, Aug 5th 2020. About a mile from home I noticed a bright object in the sky over the cornfields off to my right. It seemed strange to me immediately, and I pulled to the side of the road to look at it. The object seemed to be made entirely of light. It was so bright and twinkly, I couldn't clearly see the perimeter, but it was oblong/oval/tic tic-tac shaped, and at least 20 or more times larger than the a bright star or planet. It appeared to be in our atmosphere, as it sat, unmoving in the sky. Saturn was bright that night, and this object appeared in the sky near Saturn, so it was easy to have a frame of reference. I watched for between one and two minutes. The object never moved. Not closer or further, not left or right. After watching for those couple minutes and being totally mystified, I got spooked and drove the remaining mile home. When I got home. I came out to look at Saturn. No oval light in sight.
July 29, 2020 · 4:00 AM · CIRCLE
Plainfield, IL
To Whom it May Concern: I have three incidents to report in the Plainfield/Shorewood, Illinois area. The first took place on May 30, 2020 at 6:23 p.m Central Time. I know the exact date and time because someone on a local Facebook group posted a video (link below). You can see that I commented and said, “They were balloons” because right around the same time I was walking my dog and saw a cluster of silver balloons floating. The video is NOT what I saw and is clearly NOT balloons. Second, I do not know the exact date. It was around 8:00 pm Central Time due east in the sky at a normal airplane altitude. I saw it from my bedroom window. I noticed it because it was a very bright, white, circular or cylindrical light. At first, I thought it was Venus because the object was stationary or very slowly moving. I thought that it seemed lower than Venus’s position, but did not know what other extremely bright object would be in the night sky at that time. I kept watching while I was brushing my teeth and even called my fiance to come look. I walked back into the bathroom to finish brushing my teeth and went back to the window. The object VERY quickly shot directly towards our house, due west from it’s hovering position, and was gone. I checked my flight tracking app and there was nothing in that location. The last event took place today, July 29, 2020 at approximately 4:25 a.m. Central Time. I was walking my dog as I normally do because I wake up very early for my job. I happened to look up because it was a very clear sky and I love to see the stars and planets. At approximately 30 degrees northeast, I saw a fast moving object. It was high in the sky, higher than I’ve ever observed an airplane, white and circular. I thought that maybe it was a satellite or shooting star. I continued watching the object and it suddenly “turned off,” or disappeared. I kept watching and the object reappeared slightly more to the east in the straight path it was traveling. Suddenly, it fully stopped and reversed it’s flight path. Then, it began moving in a slow zig-zag pattern. At this point, I had to return home so I held up my phone to take a video and my phone was spazzing on and off. Not sure why. I have never seen this happen to my phone and it was fully charged as I charged it all night lon! g. Finally, I have noticed a large increase in planes flying over my area. One after another at times. There is an airport nearby (Joliet and Chicago), so I attributed it to that. This is just anecdotal information. I know I am not really a credible or reliable source, but I do believe that all of the incidents are unidentifiable. I hope that this helps in some way. Sincerely, Observer Link to May 30th video: https://m.facebook.com/groups/219191188270892?view=permalink&id=1371841413005858
July 28, 2020 · 9:58 PM · TRIANGLE
Beach Park, IL
At approximately 21:58 hours CST. I was fueling my vehicle at an open air fuel pump, my partner was working on paperwork, and our new hire stepped out to learn how to use the fuel pump. As we were waiting for the fuel to top off, I noticed the new was looking intently at the sky. I made a comment on how nice it was, and was trying to identify the aroma in the air. The new hire commented on how peculiar two small clouds looked, each about 1/2 the size of the visible moon and from my perspective, approximately 1 inch apart, comparable to the height of the visible moon. They were positioned directly below the half moon, at approximately 197 degrees SSW. He stated "they look like two Casper Ghosts chasing each-other." The "clouds" in question were traveling East across the sky, faster than any other clouds. They were also distanced quite a bit from any other clouds in the sky. After the had moved away from the moon, we noticed there was a thi! rd "cloud" in the formation, creating an almost perfect isosceles triangle. Two of the "clouds", bottom two, had a steady reddish hue to them and the third a steady amber. A s the formation moved further away from the moon, I noticed and stated, I had seen a long flash or beam of light extending from the moon through the middle of the formation . The light was very faint, like that of the halo seen around a full moon on a clear sky. The new hire asked if it was an aura from the moon perhaps. After the beam of light, the cloud shapes had completely faded away leaving just the glowing lights. The lights still moving East across the sky had now made it to about 180 degrees South. Time elapsed approximately 2 minutes. At this point the lights started to fade out one-by-one, first the top amber, then the bottom right, and finally the bottom left. It should be noted that the sighting location is approximately 1 mile directly North of the Waukegan National Airport . Both observers are male 25-40 years of age, and work in pub! lic safety.
July 28, 2020 · 9:03 PM · FIREBALL
Downers Grove/Chicago, IL
It was 9:03pm Tues July 28th. I was sitting on patio in backyard facing south talking to a relative who was facing north. I was looking up at the sky as I often do watching the planes fly into the city when I suddenly saw one solid orange/red ball of light appear as though it came from the southwest heading East towards Chicago. Growing up directly under one of the many flight paths to one of the busiest airports, ohare, ive seen my fair share of planes. These were no usual aircraft/helicopter/drone. No blinking lights to indicate aircraft. It was not a meteor or comit there was no tail/debris trail. The first one flew in our line of sight for approx. 30 sec before shrinking to a tiny speck in the night sky (on the same horizontal plane as it appeared.). As the first one vanished, two more appeared flying in the exact same trajectory as the one previous. Same speed, same altitude. One about a thumbs length in front of the other (if holding thumb out sidewa! ys up to the sky). Those two repeated the same as the first, passing before us in a perfectly horizontal line as they diminished to specks as quickly as they had appeared. Best way I can describe it read as though they materialised/dematerialized by illuminating/extinguishing. They appeared to head in the direction of the city but never descending - 2 more appeared. Same path, same distance apart same everything. Then two more and same thing. It appeared as though once they got closer to the city the went from solid orbs of light to specks instantaneously. Was able to see them through binoculars but couldnt identify anything more then orange/red glowing orbs. We were left dumbfounded by what we saw. Hope someone else besides us got to see it also!
July 25, 2020 · 6:48 PM · DISK
University park, IL
I was really ((one word deleted)) scared and it made me really ((one word deleted)) nervous. Now I’m use to it but I don’t think I like how close it comes and why if follows me even when I’m on the expressway or doing 80 or 90 miles per hour or for an extent of a hour or more
July 25, 2020 · 3:00 PM · CYLINDER
Mason city, IL
White cylinderwith no wings or tail flying west to east high altitude and high speed
July 23, 2020 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Evergreen Park, IL
(1) object appeared first , and slowly disappeared. (2) object appeared 30 seconds later and slowly disappeared also , but this one kept a shape that 2 witnesses were able to track for 15 more seconds . Second object eclipsed a star in the sky .
July 22, 2020 · 5:10 PM · CROSS
Wilmington (near), IL
Drive south bound on 53 past elwood almost to river rd. Isolated storm o my left I was takening a picture that it was just a small section all other clouds white fluffy sky blue. I looked again and saw a very bright white kinda looked like Saturn shape but light was shining off of it. It was going fast one direction with ball in front it slowed down ball down and went opposite direction ball back pointing direction it was going. I got out camera and of course hit a patch of trees saw nothing on otherside of trees. It was beautiful but shouldn't be happening.
July 14, 2020 · 11:00 AM · OVAL
Homer Glen, IL
Tuesday morning 7/14/20. Was on deck reading. Husband was reclining in chair watching dragonflies darting back and forth above him. Called me over to look at something he spotted in the sky. Looked up and way above the clouds spotted an odd oval grayish something in the sky. Way too high for any type of bird, or drone. No movement, just sat there. Off to the east was a jet heading west (with a jet stream behind it). Object was higher than jet. As jet came closer to being below object, it shot off extremely fast to the west. Still in our view, it stopped, sat a moment then shot off again to the south. We always look for a logical explanation, but couldn't explain this.
July 11, 2020 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Peoria, IL
started in the east heading west with green small light, as it got closer the green light was no longer visible.
July 11, 2020 · 4:04 AM · SPHERE
Chicago, IL
I video taped for as long as I could, the UFO continued moving in its point but stayed still in location. After staring for 3 minutes, I went back to bed. It was very early in the morning. I woke up again at 5 am and nothing in the location an hour ago, not a shooting star or bright planet. The item was gone. This was neither a drone or helicopter. This was a little sphere moving on its axle.
July 8, 2020 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Moweaqua, IL
A plane passed nearby as the object was moving higher through the atmosphere.
July 5, 2020 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Vienna, IL
I am doing this on my phone due to camping it is difficult, please forgive mistakes,this event just happened today. We are camping in shawnee national forest area and this event happened during daylight before dusk and it was not dark at all. 2 things for certain it was not a plane or a drone and if it did not teleport it was faster than the speed of light. We just got back to the camp sight and stoked the fire up to prepare for the evening campfire and s'mores with the kiddos, my brother in law was helping his daughter ride a bike about 20 yards away beside the front door of the rv. I had just sat down by the camp fire and heard/felt a strange noise like a humming or vibration and it felt like a parrot on my shoulder, as I looked around I could feel and hear the movement/vibration but not like a wind I knew it was there and moving as I tried to catch it with my eye it was like a connection with the craft ( I am not saying I was or feel like I was being abdu! cted). This happened for maybe 10 seconds then I noticed the noise/feeling was gone which was very intense, as I was trying to understand this noise as an engineer aircraft came to mind immediately. I look up and see a black object above the rv high in the sky, no lights were visible way up in the sky and it did not look right as far as flight patterns or craft shape (black triangle moving in all directions at high speed). Then it was just like teleportation and maybe 20 yards directly above my brother in law from the top of the earth in less than 1 second. I yelled at him to look up and immediately he looked up, his daughter did too. The craft went straight to the side instantly maybe 60 to 70 yards away from us and 20 yards above the trees, then it shot straight up in the sky barley in sight then straight back down and came to a complete stop instantly 20 yards above the trees (same location), the lights were visible at this point, it was like we were at a standoff with t! he craft. Take note the travel was frequent but it was as if i! t wanted us to see it in detail. The craft was a black triangle from my chair I seen 2 red lights in the back end (I refer to the back end as 2 visible points of the triangular craft)the lights did not flash and from his angle 20 yards away from me west he said he seen 4 red lights total and little flashing white lights like a glitter dead center bottom of craft( I did not see the white lights/glitter personally) I will add with my knowledge I'm looking for the propulsion system and noticing the lights while looking for it, maybe I missed the other details he seen, this happened fast. We both had full views but from different angles, his 7 year old daughter was watching too but regardless we could all see a black triangle with solid non flashing red lights and no engines or wings, it did not spin, no visible entrance, no visible windows, no visual distortion or noise at take off, no intelligent life, no landing gear no weapons, no chem or gas trails in any direction but it was cert! ainly being controlled by intelligent energy of some type. We were able to examine the craft for about maybe 10 seconds close up as it hovered silent above the trees as if setting on an invisible concrete slab. I am certain this craft had me under surveillance until I realized it was present initially I could feel it examine me, although I could not see it I could feel it and was looking for it, it had to be right above me within 20 yards and directly to the east, behind me . I was startled and the craft seemed curious after 1st visual contact I felt like it always knew my next move. I felt it was certainly showing off its capabilities and it was uncomfortable for me personally but interesting at the same time I did not feel threatened by the object at anytime but disturbed about the situation when I realized beyond a reasonable doubt this craft was certainly not from this planet. It then went left, right, up, down instantly at great distance and stopped directly by us abov! e the tree again and sat for 1 second then straight up in the ! sky and it stopped at the top of the earth then just was gone. The craft had no detail to describe, no writing or anything other than the solid red lights the triangle craft appeared to look like a slice of cheesecake, flat top, flat bottom it had depth as far as people could fit in it but nobody could be seen, no windows visible. If there were windows we could have seen them and the corners of the craft appeared to have a radius. I am big on American freedom and am against surveillance against the people for no reason, this was not the government and aliens did not build the pyramids nor could any other government have something like this, hands down this was most certainly from another extremely advanced civilization not from our planet no doubt. I thought before this event it's almost common sense that there is other life in the universe but never thought I would encounter it. I am just glad I had witnesses that seen it with me (although we already agreed not to discussit aside o! f with eachother). I do want to add no drugs or alcohol were involved we just returned from the beach with kids and we don't even drink. I hope you take this serious I know I will from now on but something has taken interest in our planet I have no doubt. My rv is 35 foot long and the craft was much larger than my rv bus in length and size. I would say the best approximate description I can give it each side of the triangle may be 50 feet And approximately 12 to 15 feet tall and at no time did we see a shadow and we should have seen a shadow consume this area I want to be very clear that there should have been a visible shadow, there's not as if physically it did not exsist but the craft was not translucent illuminated from the lighting. We all plan to remain anonymous but want to report it so I hope somebody that reads this can use the data.
July 5, 2020 · 9:44 AM · TRIANGLE
Hannah City, IL
Looking at stars on clear night and we noticed 3 lights that looked similar to stars in brightness and size. We then noticed the 3 lights moving in sync. As if they were connected and in triangular formation or object. Moving slowly and then each one slowly faded away in brightness and seemed to vanish. Can’t explain what it was. Bizarre. We both saw it and pointed it out to each other and within 10 seconds of talking about it and pointing it out, it was gone before I could get my phone camera out.
July 4, 2020 · 11:30 PM · FORMATION
Chicato, IL
Me, My wife and a neighbor were watching fireworks around the city from the rooftop of our building, and among the fireworks exploding, we spotted 3 objects that were definitely not part of the of the light show directly west of our building. What got my attention initially was 3 red/orange objects hovering above the city at a distance in the formation of an equilateral triangle. These glowing objects seemed out of place from all the flashing lights coming from fireworks displays because they were not moving. By the time my wife and I got out our cell phones to record them, two of the lights had disappeared (Top and right) and the one that remained (Bottom and left) stayed visible. We both were able to get footage of that one. The remaining object didn't appear to be moving in any direction only hovering. Our footage shows the glowing object hovering for a minute or 2 and then just fades away. Being on the north side of Chicago we've seen more than around 30! airplanes or helicopters a day going in or out of O'hare International for years, and these definitely did not match movement or light patterns consistent with either one of those. There was no physical interaction as the objects seemed to be far enough away to be hovering over either Lincolnwood, IL or further west near Rosemont IL. It was hard to tell how far they were as I couldn't determine the size of them. The other strange thing that me and my wife agreed on was that it seemed to be intentional to us. As if it was a personal show to just us. That's probably not relevant, or true, but it was a very strong feeling. So much so that I want to include that detail. I am a fraud analyst and have a very skeptical nature, but this was something that I cannot explain. I'm sending 2 videos, one that my wife took right next to me, and the one I took. My video is a little more shaky but her's is a quite a bit more stable. My neighbor didn't take any footage because her phone was not around at the time. I will include the video and a screenshot of google maps to show where we THINK the objects were. Thank you for your time. Feel free to email me with any questions.