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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
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.
April 21, 2020 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Chicago, IL
Sitting out side in the backyard with family enjoying a fire at night. We looked up at the stars and see a disk shaped light moving across the sky. It was highe r then any plane and definitely not a shooting star. It goes far north out of the field of vision. About 5-8 minutes later we see a jet way up in the sky with flashing lights. And behind the plane we see the same disc shaped light trailing behind the plane. Heading north then the ufo veers to the east and It then continues. We are all watching it and then the light disappears. If this would have been a plane or some other known object it would of been complete visible at that distance. This was a clear night sky many stars visible almost no clouds.
April 21, 2020 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Cary, IL
I was taking my parent’s dog outside. Today was a clear day - blue skies and no clouds where this happened. I looked up and saw 4 objects flying very high. At first they flew in a line. But then they started to change formations. First they went into an arrow formation, then back into a line...it just kept changing. They were all silver in color. I know they weren’t commercial airliners or jets because there was no trail behind them. I called my dad outside and he witnessed it too. I was too stunned to grab my phone 😞
April 20, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
This is second time writing. First was for Reddit. -I have told the story SEVERAL times by voice, phone, in person. It has never once changed. I have (during C-VID 19 Lockdown in Chicago) ALMOST convinced myself i didn't see it. But i did. I was coming home from my parents in the suburbs. Heading to my place in Chicago where i live. It was POURING rain the entire 40 minute drive. It suddenly stopped, still bad conditions while i approached o'hare airport. I believe there is an underpass from i90 where ohare is literally above me on the bridge… As i exit this bridge right next to o'hare… i see the.most.beautiful. Shooting star i’ve eve imagined existed. (this is the first millisecond of time broken down) I saw this bright bright light shoot out of my vision. As this millisecond comes to a close, i realize that i saw this light fly AWAY from me. I am a mechanical engineer, i know my coordinate systems extremely well. I can tell you this light traveled up, and away from me (North East Direction). The next slight millisecond of time consisted in me understanding all the sudden that this was NOT a shooting star. It was pouring rain not 5 minutes ago. I look up, the entire sky is covered with rain clouds. They are so presumptuous that they look like their 50 feet above my vehicle. This “shooting star” that i saw i realized left my plane of vision up and away and i still see where it went: a PERFECT horizontal break in the huge rain clouds. This all takes place out of the underpass of o'hare airport. After realizing this light just escaped through that cover, the next millisecond in time is butterflies in my stomach. Because the light i just saw couldn't have been a shooting star given the cloud cover. I realize that i also saw the lights TURN INTO ONE LIGHT. From the close, o'hare type location i first saw it, i saw there were in fact 3 lights and during their exit it formed to one. The butterflies progress. Another millisecond goes by; and i realize the lights are longgg gone. All the sudden my focus comes back, and i see two GIANT jumbo jets flying synchronized, in same exact direction, same exact plane of height of ground that the angle of the lights flew. These planes, giant aircrafts are moving fast i’m sure. But they're moving from my dumb perception slowly as they glide from a take off out of ohare. I line these up in my geometric mind; and i notice they are at the same plane the lights were, and the lights were PERFECTLY CENTERED in between these two flashing airplanes. As if the airplanes perfectly catapulted the lights. Or guided? Or Followed? Around this time i also noticed street lights separating east and west i-90 FLICKERED. Like a perfect trail in direction of that light… Also during this time it hits me of what i just saw. My next move is to call my father. He is a wise realistic man. Straight shooter but absolutely believes in UFO’s. I call him tell him the EXACT description and words i just used to explain this. The very absolute second my story comes to an obvious end. We both hear, a click click clunk and the call drops from us. I call back, thinking perhaps he was messing with me? He thought the same of me. He rushes me off the phone and goes to bed (10:15 ish Pm) He is never like that he was very skeptical. I think i was confirmed sighting, and they used my phone call as aid in their research whatever is going on. Since this i have just today posted on another website, and all the sudden today there is our USA govt. Releasing old footage of UFOs normalizing them? So now any local stories are blocked by CNN and CBS mentioning the pentagon releasing UFO videos. Also After my sighting 4.20.20 there was a METEOR SHOWER the next day. NIce odds right? Also same week that Elon Musk is sending satteltes out. This was definetly not that hence those need rockets, and this was silent and 50^300032.00290-10 times faster than any light i’ve ever seen.
April 19, 2020 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Leaf River, IL
First walked out , clear only evening star in sky , saw 1 very small light moving SW TO NE across sky ,then another right behind it , and another, all within 5 seconds distance. Then saw 2 next to each other moving much slower, in same direction.
April 18, 2020 · 10:06 PM · LIGHT
Salem, IL
Went outside and there was a light pretty high up over our tree line (from our view) this light has been here for a while and before was accompanied with an air craft that flew significantly lower and closer to us that we assumed it was a drone and that the big one was a planet. Last night it was in a slightly different area in the sky. I said "get theres that light that i guess is a planet (laughing because I got called crazy for saying it was a if I watching the area) and i looked away for about 5 seconds after saying.this to my fiance and he said yes I see it. But as we looked back 5 seconds later we both notice it was gobe. This was very big and white light so bright youd swear it wasa planet. And then boom. Gone. As we are looking for it wondering how it just dissapeared...it came back in a very slighlty different spot to thw right. No colors flashing. It disnt really twinkle or flash. Then it got super dim amd looked like a pin for light like a no! rmal star. Then itd get brighter and dim again but more frequently but still slow enough there was no fast flash in between. Then we noticed very far away was two more but these two were grouped together and seemed to be communicating with flashes. No other colored lights. Just super white. As we looked back to the original main huge dimming light we notice it was going up and very far away to where we couldnt see it no more. It made motions the whole time that i call swimming in the sky. It loomed like the motion fish make to swim but also going up and down back and forth farther and closer.no sound associated with the craft. After that main big one dissapeared we notice one of the others also dissapeared but the other stayed. We went inside and a few minutes later I went to look out my window and seen that the last one had gone too. I have a 49 second video. But its hard to tell. And im slightly shaky from nerves so tonight (4/19/20 i intend to set up a spot so the camer! a is steady and as it gets dark i want to see if it comes back! or more come back. Also....last night we went out again after it all and there was nothing else but the hazy fog like clouds were eerie and one spot was even squiggly like a far away galaxy would appear. Probably not related to what i seen but it added to the spook. ( we are being watched) odd time with the covid19 that sightings are increasing ! I woke up with a long scratch on my leg and its still welped like it had just happened. As soon as i opened my eyes my mind went to the pain. Creepy!
April 17, 2020 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Manteno, IL
Last night around 9:15 my wife and I were sitting in our backyard when my wife thought she saw a shooting star, I turned to look but what we saw was definitely not a shooting star. There were three aircraft flying extremely fast going north without any lights and they made no sound. They flew in a tight formation and then went East and were quickly out of sight because of no lights. They weren’t very high up, maybe 15,000 feet. I’ve never seen anything like it.
April 17, 2020 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Manteno, IL
Last night around 9:15 my wife and I were sitting in our backyard when my wife thought she saw a shooting star, I turned to look but what we saw was definitely not a shooting star. There were three aircraft flying extremely fast going north without any lights and they made no sound. They flew in a tight formation and then went East and were quickly out of sight because of no lights. They weren’t very high up, maybe 15,000 feet. I’ve never seen anything like it.
April 17, 2020 · 8:35 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
series of high altitude whte lights (satellites?) traveling NE approximately above Chicago Indiana border
April 15, 2020 · 3:00 AM · OTHER
Burbank, IL
This all began on Monday night, my roommate and I decided to take a LDS (Lake Shore Drive is an expressway that runs alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan through the city of CHICAGO) (GREAT FOR SIGHTSEEING) Anyways we were making our way back home, we live in the southwest suburbs (BURBANK). While on the highway I pointed out to my roommate something too bright to be a star, she actually pulled over to see it for herself (she agreed that it seemed to bright and big for it to be a star). I snapped one picture of it & We made our ways home. Oddly enough the image I capture gave me the chills. (It seem to be a round object). I payed it no attention and brushed it off. Now fast forward to today Wednesday 04/15/2020, I woke up at 5:00am with pain on my left abdominal hip. My morning routine is consistent except for today. Today I woke up way earlier, my routine didn't change I still got out of bed and went into the shower, among undressing I noticed what seems to be like a marking of a triangle on my hip. I ran to my room I didn't have anything on my bed that could have caused it, and no this wasn't on me before I went to bed. I'm having a hard time comprehending what could have caused it since I have no object shaped the size of the marking.
April 9, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Auora, IL
No cloud coverage present. 28 White ball shaped lights appearing to come from Orion's belt from right side star. Traveling to Big Dipper in line formation. When lights reached the Big Dipper, they seemed to disappear. Speed and distance between the lights seemed to give the impression that they were evacuating. Watched from driveway on East side of Aurora, IL.
April 8, 2020 · 11:55 PM · LIGHT
ROCKFORD, IL
It was about 10 minutes to midnight, I was sitting in my chair in my living room and looked out toward the east and saw an object with very bright lights. It was moving fairly slowly in a southern direction. I first saw it over the golf course (east of our home) where there very few trees and continued to watch it as it progressed south beyond some trees. It was moving horizontal to the ground. I moved to the kitchen window and then the dining room to get a better view of it and saw there was a second one, same shape, as if following it, in the same direction or path. The shape was unusual, it had a center light with what appeared to be a spoke-like pattern of straight lights extending from the center light. All the bright lights were the same size. The “spokes” or straight lines of light could be described as being at the 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 positions on a clock, each line having 4 or maybe 5 lights in a straight row extending out from its center. I couldn’t see any other shape due to the dark sky. Both objects were of the exact same design and the lights did blink. There was no noise that I could hear. They proceeded south then arched toward the west. I did not see them increase speed or slow down when they were visible to me. There is an airport in Rockford and we normally do hear airplanes overhead as well as helicopters, but these objects were large and unlike any airplane lights or helicopter lights I have ever seen. They were in the sky much lower to the ground than any plane or helicopter I have seen fly overhead. My husband was sleeping and I did not wake him, so I was the only one that I know of that witnessed them. It would have taken at least the size of a fifty cent piece to have covered one of them from my view. They both appeared to be the same size. I do not drink alcohol at all and am not taking prescription medications. I am a retired registered nurse. I do wear glasses with a very slight correction for distance and had them on during this sighting. I did try to take a video of the lights, but only had my mobile phone camera, so it didn’t turn out well at all. It appears in the video as a sphere of light with no spokes showing in the picture. I also took it through the window, which has a screen so all I can see if a bright round sphere of light with screen wire squares dancing about in the video. The video was time stamped at 11:57pm and is 15 seconds long. Unfortunately I couldn’t hold it perfectly still so the light’s movement is probably not accurate as to its actual movement through the sky. We had the house alarm set, so I didn’t open the back door to step outside for a better video. This morning I did describe what I saw to my husband and he viewed the video. He checked our outdoor security camera and backed it up to 11:45 – midnight. At 11:53 it did pick up a bright light in the north eastern direction that was moving south seen through the trees.
April 5, 2020 · 2:00 PM · CHANGING
Elgin, IL
We seen around 15 lights flying in The sky Elgin, IL, Triangle Circle and Line of lights in the sky from east side to the west
April 3, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Glenview, IL
When taking trash out, I looked up and observed the 2 lights moving through the sky, no indication of them emitting any sound. Caught them both on cell phone video camera.
March 30, 2020 · 4:30 PM · FORMATION
Rockford, IL
15 white, bubble-shaped objects moving together in arc-shaped formation + few more on the side
March 28, 2020 · 8:30 AM · LIGHT
Rock Island, IL
You can still see him now they're still coming if you look up at the Moon until the right it looks like Venus it's the brightest light in the sky the right underneath that these lights are manifesting one after another and they're flying to the right up into outer space and it's been going on for about an hour now. They're flying slow now but they were going faster and zigzagging I saw one stop and switch directions.
March 23, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Beecher, IL
I witnessed a group of objects moving Southeast on the same flight path, perfectly spaced and moving at the same speed. They looked like stars or satellites.I counted approximately 16 before I watched the last one disappear from the horizon.
March 21, 2020 · 8:27 PM · SPHERE
Montgomery, IL
Dark clear night sky. Temperature 28 degrees Fahrenheit. Stars very visible. Witnessed, 9 silent amber illuminated spheres, traveling northwest to southeast. All in a strait line. Also, they were visible from nearly horizon to horizon. About 1 mile separation between crafts. Very similar to common satellites, as seen in the night sky...
March 21, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Glen Ellyn, IL
Walking out my dog I noticed a beautiful clear sky and very bright stars. While gazing upon them I noticed some were moving fast. One after another. It seemed as they were stationary eating their turn to move. I went back home and I told a friend to check that out with me. She came out and as soon as we looked up more star like objects were moving the same direction. A lot more.
March 21, 2020 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Rockford, IL
Im not sure how many i saw. It definitely wasnt natural. I looked up at the sky and noticed there were to many stars in the sjy. The lights were coming from the west moving east slightly south. The first light from the west was the brightest and biggest. They seemed to be climbing in altitude in a straight line.
March 14, 2020 · 11:48 AM · OTHER
Homer Glen, IL
Black object very high in the sky. Looked like it was a balloon or possibly 2 balloons. Looked very similar to a giant plastic bag flying ar wind speed. Flying higher than jets usually fly in this area. My friend first noticed it, then he pointed it out to me. We watched it for about 20 minutes then I had to leave.
March 7, 2020 · 7:00 PM · CROSS
Glenview, IL
These were obviously drones. From what I could make out, they seemed to be Phantom but I’m not sure about the model. They were all unevenly separated but heading in the same direction somewhat staggered. They were very silent and quite stable considering that there was a decent wind. I have never seen anything like this before, and the fact that they’re all the exact same make and model of drone, and doing VERY similar flight patterns was quite unsettling. Not to mention that their flight path took them in a loop that was at least a mile in diameter. From my experience, the only reason you’d fly your drone out that far would be if you could see/film it— something that you could to do with how dark it was. Don’t worry, I made sure to film it.
March 6, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, IL
Was in my car on the highway heading to jacksonville Illinois from springfield Illinois it was around 930 pm I was looking out my car window at the sky and I noticed two light balls not flashing but definitely moving they were larger balls of light than the stars in the background so it stood out to me. They were side by side so I could not tell if it was one ufo or two separate ones. They were just balls of light no color I flashing or anything and it was moving slowly what seem like maybe upwards towards the sky then it just completely vanished. It stuck around for a good two mins and seemed to be moving same speed as the car just only was getting smaller as it moved upwards before finally disappearing.
March 6, 2020 · 7:35 PM · FLASH
Des Plaines, IL
March 6, 2020, 7:35pm, Des Plaines, IL 60016 Saw about 30 evenly spaced star-like lights traveling at same speed from southwest sky, from underneath the brightest star in the West, traveling east-to-northeast over north side of Chicago (from my backyard in suburb, Des Plaines). None of them had colored or blinking lights, like you would see from a commercial aircraft. Instead, they were steady lights, much like moving stars. They looked like the occasional satellites that I used to see in the Northwoods; except there was a long string, a convoy. I took some video. It was about 7:35pm when I saw the first of about thirty. Only two were close together. The other 28, or so, were evenly spaced apart traveling exactly same speed and in the exact same direction and appearing from the exact same place in the southwestern sky – one after another. Hard to gauge their size or altitude or speed; except they were travelling much higher than the commercial air traffic from O’Hare airport. I see a lot of airplanes in the sk! y here near O’hare, at all altitudes. Never, ever saw anything like these. They were not commercial passenger aircraft, I am certain of that.