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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
May 3, 2020 · 9:23 PM · CIRCLE
Galesburg, IL
It started with someone seeing it out in my front yard, and then notifying me to come look. When I went outside, there was about 10 flying objects in the shape of a circle with no flashing lights, and a white light in the middle. Most of them were flying north-east, but I spotted one heading south-east. They were all flying at the exact same speed and appeared out of no where. Three were flying in a triangle like formation, while others were following behind the formation. They had no sound. It was sort of cloudy, but they were able to be seen with no squinting of the eye.
May 2, 2020 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Oswego, IL
It was 9:25 pm when I was hanging out in my garage working on my cars. when I was going to go to the bathroom outside and I saw the Large orange ball on the horizon. I started recording video on my phone right away not knowing what I was seeing. it was a large orange ball that seemed like it was on fire but was very bright orange/yellow and was changing colors from orange to yellow. this event lasted around 2 min. I have seen meteors before in my life and this I could not explain. I will send the video to your location along with maps and GPS coordinates where the UFO came from.
May 2, 2020 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Naperville, IL
My daughter and I were star gazing and hoping to catch a meteor. Thirty minutes past sundown, my daughter catches a glimpse of what looks to be a possible meteor. We noticed five other lights hovering between the moon and Earth almost surrounding the moon and dancing around it like electrons around an atom. We were excited and amazed then scared. They continued to make strange flight patterns moving diagonally like the path electrons take. Suddenly, a very bright, white cloud started to cover the moon and part of the sky blocking our vision of a continued dance or flight pattern. The clouds continued to roll in and we no longer saw the lights. Only the moon on one side, Sirius on the other, and the Big Dipper.
May 1, 2020 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Palos Heights, IL
Have captured it on video first I was sitting in my family room looking out the back window facing east approximately couple thousand feet up noticed a orange flash coming from the east thought it was a plane on fire called the wife she looked out the window then we went out on the deck and took a video there were two of them approximately half a mile apart all the sudden they look as if they were slow or stopped because I noticed another airplane flying very quickly underneath it may be 1000 foot below a good night believe my eyes when I seen!
April 30, 2020 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Bloomington, IL
We spotted an indigo light shining through the clouds to the east of the city, the brightness increased significantly twice before dimming to a faint hue and eventually disappearing.
April 26, 2020 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Jacksonville, IL
Witness provides no information. PD
April 26, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, IL
A line of fast moving lights coming from the north west all disappeared into the same location. A blue/red and white light was seen blinking in the same location after all the light disappeared into the same location.
April 26, 2020 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Breese, IL
To the left of bright shining Venus, which is to the left of the moon, was a vertical linear formation of lights, with a star like appearance, that moved south east, continuing in a linear formation, as one by one they disintegrated, over approximately 3 minutes.
April 26, 2020 · 9:23 PM · LIGHT
Aurora, IL
While walking my dog tonight, I noticed how brilliant the stars were! Clear night. As I gazed at the stars, I noticed what appeared to be a perfect line of stars... spaced exactly the same distance apart...but they were MOVING! I kept thinking my eyes were playing tricks on me, knowing that stars don't travel. But the line was moving. There was no noise. They appeared like bright stars in the sky...seemed quite a distance up. It felt like hours, but in reality is was probably 45 seconds to a minute before they just started to fade away. Just disappeared into the ethers. I have never witnessed anything like it in my life. There were probably 8-10 of them in the line. I did attempt to shoot video, but the video is black. Perhaps it could be blown up to see if any detail can be extracted. If you would like to have it, I'm happy to provide it.
April 26, 2020 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Westmont, IL
I was walking my dog in a park at night with a clear sky. I saw a faint vertical streak on the horizon and thought it might have been the remnants of a comet streak. As I continued to look, it got brighter, closer, and began to rotate to orient horizontally in relation to the horizon. Once it was directly above me, I noticed it was a line of star-like lights, each about as bright as an average star. Some were spaced in twos or threes. I thought it could have been a comet streak but once it was horizontal across the sky I saw individual lights following a straight line pattern. The lights moved too fast to be satellites or planes but too slow to be meteors or comets. It seemed to be higher than the normal flight altitude of planes. There was a point in the sky that once the lights hit it, they fizzled out and disappeared. One by one they hit this point and until they were all gone. I also noticed that once the last light disappeared, the frogs around me start! ed singing again and I had been watching the event in dead silence. My sister was at a bonfire about two miles away and got a video of the line of lights. I truly have never seen something like this in my life.
April 26, 2020 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Johnsburg, IL
Stepped outside on our deck on 4/26/20 at approx. 9:20 p.m. just to look at the moon and venus, and we could not miss the single file line of lights in the sky, unevenly spaced but close enough together that we could count approximately 15 lights in a row. The last two lights were next to each other but still in line at the end of these UFO's. The UFO lights came from the Southwest and heading to the Southeast from Johnsburg Illinois. The white lights appeared to be round and were flying at high altitude. They were large enough to see clearly. No aircraft noise. It was a little windy outside and the sky was clear and bright with stars. I have never seen anything like this before and we do a lot of skygazing. We could not see an object, just bright large lights.
April 26, 2020 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
East Peoria, IL
saw 1 continuous light moving like a satellite from NW to SE faded to nothing after traveling approx 20 seconds, no clouds could be seen, maybe 5 minutes later saw about 20 continuous row, same light same direction all faded at same location as the 1st one.
April 26, 2020 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Naperville, IL
We saw about 100 tiny lights like stars flying in a straight line from the west to the east directly over our home. They were very distant and not spaced out evenly there were some singularly spaced some in pairs some in threes. But all flying in a straight line one after another across the sky. The appreared in the west flew over our home and disappeared into blackness in the east.
April 26, 2020 · 9:08 PM · CIRCLE
Wheaton, IL
In my backyard and completely night/black out. I saw about 20 circular lit-up objects flying in a row in the sky. There was no sound. They were flying slowly and then one by one their lights went out sequentially. The lights were not multi-colored or blinking. They were flying slowly.
April 26, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, IL
Dozen or more white lights traveling southeast in a straight line.
April 26, 2020 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Peotone, IL
Around 9pm Sunday near I57 and Wilmington Rd. myself and 3 other family members saw a line of 60 to 100 lights in the northwest sky in a single line formation fly into what we thought to be a star and one by one disappear...Starlink satilites?
April 26, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Aurora, IL
I tried to take a photo of what we saw but my phone started acting up it would not go to camera mode. Then when I looked up to take the picture the round lights just disappeared without a trace.
April 26, 2020 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Plainfield, IL
I was enjoying a nice fire 🔥 in my back yard when I noticed from the corner of my eye a string of lights. At first I thought I was seeing things then I’d call my kids to verify what I was seeing. It was a trail of lights about 20 of them in a single formation moving from the horizon to the point of the night sky. I’d compared it to a machine gun shooting white tracer rounds to the sky. Craziest thing I’d ever saw
April 26, 2020 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT
Carlinville, IL
AT 9:05 PM 4/26/2020 WE SEEN A GROUP OF LIGHTS APPROX:10-15 IN NUMBER FLYING IN IN PERFECLTY STRAIGHT LIGHT BEHIND EACH OTHER. THE WEREFLYING WEST TO EAST, MADE NO SOUND AND WERE TRAVELING AT A HIGH SPEED. IT LASTED PERHAPS 1 MINUTE THEN IT SEEMED THEY FLEW INTO A *TUNNEL" OR "BLACK HOLE" ? AND JUST DISAPPEARED, THEY DID NOT JUST FADE AWAY. THIS WAS WITNESSED BY MYSELF, MY MOTHER AND MY SON IN LAW
April 26, 2020 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Markham, IL
They were seen flying southeasterly Direction. I will find a straight line formation smaller ones in the front followed by one large aircraft. The larger aircraft had long needle nose with a triangular body shape. I do have some video footage.
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.
April 26, 2020 · 9:25 AM · CIRCLE
Casey, IL
Saw about 14 lights vertical (looked like stars) in the sky, in in the north. Starting from the bottom of the sky floating up to the top one by one, following at the same distance. They all shot up to the sky one at a time, in a single file line and dissapeared. The very last one looked about like 3 stars hovered together.
April 25, 2020 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Chillicothe, IL
Fleet of lighted unidentified aircraft, traveling over Illinois (Peoria County) Saturday night, April 25th , 2020, (8 – 9 pm) Peoria County, Illinois, 2 hrs southwest of Chicago. My husband and I saw a fleet of lighted aircraft shooting out from in between the moon and another object, which may be another moon or Big star, it’s a new light we noticed that is there all the time now, bright like the moon and travels alongside the moon. We were facing southwest when we saw the fleet of lighted aircraft appear in the sky. This is Covid 19 shelter in place now, reduced airplane traffic, so it was extremely odd to see this happening. Finishing up with some yard work after dark, I had looked up into the sky and saw the line of lighted objects that appeared to be rapidly shooting through the sky in single file formation, faster than any jet or rocket I’ve ever seen. They were oblong shaped lighted craft, traveling close together, no noise, no exhaust, just light. They were flying in single file maintaining specific distance, some would speed up a little then slow down, although I did see two flying together side by side although still moving at the same speed and distance as the rest of the fleet. Watching them trail through the sky, then disappear, with the other crafts following in the same direction disappearing, simply blew my mind! They appeared rapidly, not like fading into view. I started counting them to myself, they were going so fast I lost track (maybe 50+). I alerted my husband to come outside to see what was happening. The event lasted a couple minutes longer, perhaps up to 100 craft total, and then they were gone. They just disappeared into the sky, just like they first appeared no trailing off into the distance, they were just gone, it was a clear night, we could see their lights very brightly. If I had to describe what it looked like, here it goes. You know the machines that continually shoot out tennis balls to a tennis player, or like a military semiautomatic shots being fired off. The brightly lighted fleet looked like that, they looked to be on a mission. I’ve never seen anything like this! Thank you for reading my eye witness report. Hope this helps someone doing some deep research. Please reply back if any other reports of this nature are happening in Illinois.
April 21, 2020 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Tinley Park, IL
I was on my porch and noticed a bright white circle object in sky that was not moving. It was really low and big compared to the stars and this seemed weird. It looked like it had 2 or 3 white lights at bottom that flashed once in awhile. I had my mom come out and look and it still did not move and she thought the same thing as me that it could be a UFO I even FaceTime my brother and he could not believe how bright and low this object looked. I was looking at it for 15-20 minutes before clouds covered it and it was bright for a minute, then it was gone. It’s something I never seen before. I took pictures with my phone and today I seen some of my pictures look like ones taken from other people.