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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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March 6, 2020 · 7:45 AM · LIGHT
Rockford, IL
They were in the Northwest sky traveling from West south west to north by North East in single file about 10 miles apart at about 50 degree up from the horizon. Taking about 30 seconds for each one to cross my part of the sky. I called my friend in Lee County and they confirmed what I was seeing. I called my other friend in Rockford he confirm what I was seeing. We cannot be the only people that saw the lights all in a row about halfway through there was one that was two or three times the size as the rest
March 6, 2020 · 7:38 AM · LIGHT
Savanna, IL
Me and my friend seen what they looked like we're round lights they were in line they were hundreds of them and they were the same distance apart except for two that were together towards the end they looked like they were together they were probably 10 feet apart might have been connected to each otherand they come from underneath a bright light that was in the sky in the West and they were going Northeast and it looks like they went into a black hole and disappeared me and my friend were standing in my front yard and we observed this I got my camera which is a sanyo I tried to film it and my camera froze and it is still froze up which a hour prior to this event I was using my camera and it worked just fine had full batteries and everything has anyone else seen or report this event that happened in the northwest of Illinois or eastern Iowa, Clinton
March 5, 2020 · 8:15 PM · FORMATION
Columbia, IL
At least 12 similar Objects were at a very high altitude following each other in a line heading southeast across a clear sky. Their altitude was so high that there was no discernable color. Just white lights moving quickly across the sky at 20:15 over Columbia, Il on March 5, 2020
March 5, 2020 · 7:13 PM · UNKNOWN
Altamont, IL
I viewed what appeared to be stars moving from West to East beginning around 7:13 pm central time. They were moving slow across the sky but fast enough to know they were not stars or fixed items you typically see in night sky. There appeared to be no specific formation or spacing of any kind. The only pattern they had in common was the direction they were navigating toward Effingham, Illinois and staying north of interstate. It was like watching a parade of lights over the sky for several minutes and then nothing for a few minutes then I saw another four cross over the sky. I stopped counting after the numbers were well over a dozen. I estimate 20 or so. I watched them cross over sky for several minutes. I tried to capture them on video from my iphone for 17 seconds but the video just shows a black sky and I cannot make out anything. Two of the lights disappeared as I was watching them. I watched one change direction suddenly from West to East to to! head North to South. They appeared like small white lights with no red flashing light or tails and appeared to be high in the sky. I am accustomed to seeing planes flying to and from St. Louis Lambert Airport. I am used to seeing helicopters and other small known aircraft. These are unlike anything I have ever seen before. My first thought was why would so many planes take off all at once and my second thought was why are there no red flashing lights attached to these. I have been reading reports about satellite being seen and while I do not dismiss this I can account that what I was looking at was not something I have ever seen before. I was astonished to see a fleet of something unknown to me and had they all been tail to nose nose to tail I would be able to accept that explanation.
March 4, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Fairview Heights, IL
Husband rushed into the house and made me go outside where six "stars" were playing in the sky. I kid you not, I watched as they moved all over the place and a plane past under them. It was surreal. Thrn 2 planes showed up circling the area at a lower altitude and the 6 "stars" keep going higher then back down playing with each other. We live in an area where law enforcement has caught these types of events on video. In fact I believe you can find one of them on you tube. We couldn't video this cause it was too high up. The 2 planes that showed up circled the area until all the "stars" were no longer visible.
March 2, 2020 · 4:45 AM · SPHERE
Andover, IL
On the morning of March 2, 2020 I was sitting in my living room listening to music. It was 4:45 am. I noticed a light moving northeast from my area. My first thought was that it was a plane. I saw 10 more in succession and got up to move to the window. These lights continued to cross my sight line going northeast. After seeing about 30 of them, I stepped out on my front porch to get an idea of where they were coming from. It seemed that they were dropping down from the same point in the sky. About one half mile east and south of my house. They would first appear as a dull orb, drop down and become much brighter and then move northeast in a straight line behind the others. I continued to watch until the last one, which was at a longer interval than the others dropped down and took off following the others. I would estimate between 50 and sixty of these lighted orbs continued northeast in a straight line. As the moved farther away they took on the appearance of a long line of! light due to the regular distance between each vehicle. The sky was clear at this time.
February 28, 2020 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Breese, IL
The lights were consistently spaced in a straight line, one after another. The only thing I can compare it to would be a pulsating line of lights or maybe lights moving along a conveyor belt. The lights just appeared in one section of sky and then disappeared in another section of the sky (the length of the line in the sky was about the length of my hand). The pulsating continued for about five to ten minutes. Then another single light moved downward perpendicular to the line of lights and then the line of lights stopped.
February 27, 2020 · 4:00 PM · OVAL
Country Club Hills, IL
My mother was driving from west to east on Central Avenue toward Cicero Avenue. It was Thursday, February 27, 2020, between 4pm and 4:30pm. After several grey and snowy days, this day was bright, blue and sunny. S he looked up and saw what she said was a bright, shiny, metallic vehicle that was in the shape of a clam shell, but without the clamshell ridges. There was no noise. There were no vapour trails. She was in disbelief and is a skeptic by nature. She did not know how high up it was, but said that if she used her finger and thumb, it was 3 inches across from her point of view. All she wants to know is if anyone else saw it. Thank you.
February 26, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, IL
I seen several moving lights above the clouds. They're moving in a circles and across each other but no clear image of craft! Its a cloudy night but clearly see these lights hovering above the clouds south part sky of Springfield, IL
February 25, 2020 · 3:28 AM · DISK
Lewistown, IL
Our Ring doorbell on back porch kept going off but no one was there. Next day I looked at all the motion and was able to see a bright light high over our back garage.. appears maybe even a figure in the light and off to the right was a saucer like with 3 lights. I could furnish a picture. I was able to screenshot it but now it is gone when I look for it in the ring footage. Evens shows the time of the early morning. So strange!
February 23, 2020 · 8:06 PM · CIRCLE
Greenville, IL
Circles, lighting up, there was 6 of them. they were white and very bright in the sky. The background was dark and it looked like there was clouds around them
February 20, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Colchester, IL
A silver circular craft was flying horizontally for a while then completely vanished. No wings no exhaust. Almost reflective. The sky was clear and no clouds.
February 20, 2020 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Monee, IL
Was hovering near side of I 57 hwy pretty low, triangular with 3 red lights
February 15, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Skokie, IL
My wife and I were returning home from dinner near Dempster and Crawford in Skokie, IL on Feb. 14, 2020 – Valentine Day. I first noticed two Unmanned Aerial Systems, guessing, one to two miles in the distance, hovering, stationary and close together, appearing as constant star color, west of Crawford. After several moments, one pulled away and dropped in a straight line very rapidly in a matter of several seconds to about half the distance to the horizon. The other after a short time continued west very quickly in a straight line, and faded almost out of sight. The shape of both objects remained constant. The UAS that dropped continued moving south and quickly merged with UAS described below. Towards the southwest we counted approximately 8 or 9 other objects. Counting was difficult because of the quickness and the back and forth of their movements. Three or four were definitely helicopters, long military shapes with flashing night- lights, moving west while two or three other star dot shaped lights were flying east towards the objects moving west. All appeared to be at a variety of heights to one another, very high to very low. All objects were moving extremely fast, in straight lines and in close proximity to one another. The action looked chaotic.
February 10, 2020 · 6:42 PM · OVAL
La Grange, IL
I was looking for the moon I saw the moon but to my right I saw this object with pulsing lights but wasn't moving. Then I turned my head to look at the ambulance going by. I looked up again it moved to it's right about 1/2 mile it just sat there for at least 35 to 40 minutes.
February 10, 2020 · 10:00 AM · DISK
Oreana, IL
A lady wrote a letter to editor of our local paper describing a siting which to me is of a UFO. I am providing the text of the letter is below. I will email the scan of the newspaper. LETTER: What kind of bird was that? • Jun 23, 2020 A few weeks before spring I took my dogs outside mid morning. I always check the sky for hawks because I know that my 3.5 pound Yorkies would be a full meal deal. The sky was very blue with no clouds. East of our home are woods with trees between 50 to 70 feet high. There were no leaves on any of the trees. Approximately I'm guessing 50 feet above trees a circle of silver caught my eyes. My first thought was it had to be birds even though I'd never seen birds fly that high. Also the birds appeared to be touching each other to form a circle. They appeared to be going south but moving very slow. In a matter of seconds they turned and disappeared going north. No sooner had they made this move but appeared again going south. They didn't seem to be moving forward. the next second they turned north again. I waited for them to reappear, but they didn't. I've had a lot of time to think about what I saw. I would have written sooner but I didn't want to bother anyone. Much more important news was being reported. I am writing to you in hopes you'll print this and that someone else saw what I have described and have the same questions or answers. If birds, what kind? If not, birds what?
February 3, 2020 · 9:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Springfield, IL
In sky to South, high and distant --- visibly moving slightly left, right, up, down in approximately same place (not moving in any direction) with white lights at each point and a blue light occasionally moving around and occasionally a brief flash of red or yellow
February 1, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Shawnee National Forest, IL
Myself and 2 others were camping in Shawnee Forest at the top of a bluff about 300 ft tall. It was night. My friend said come lool at this...we saw objects, looked like a star...moving across the sky...spaced evenly moving east. No flashing lights...looked like stars. They were moving at the same speed. One was above the leading one or higher in the sky spaced the same as the ones trailing moving parallel to to the others, so two in the front basicly. They moved across the sky one after another for aboit ten minutes or less then faded out one by one in the middle if the sky. They were definitely part of an intentional formation. We had a clear view of the sky, clear night no clouds and no light pollution. I was completely sober and saw this cleary. I fly drones and this was not a drone similar to commercial consumer drones. There were no anti aircraft light or red light resemblimg a military operation.
January 15, 2020 · 6:35 AM · UNKNOWN
Waterloo, IL
Shape unknown because they were small they look like small stars they going from west to east in a straight line at a steady pace and all evenly space apart.
January 8, 2020 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
St. Francisville, IL
At approximately 8:30pm 2 adults and one child saw a line of simultaneously blinking white lights traveling faster than an airplane across the sky from the southwest to north-northeast.
December 28, 2019 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Forest Park, IL
My fiance and I have a condo and were out on our 3rd.floor balcony which faces East. We spotted a light that silently hovered and started to slowly move from North to South. It changed positions numerous times and would fade and re-appear throughout the incident. It was flashing rapidly numerous colors, white, red and green. At times, planes would fly next to it or below it. If I had to guess it was about 800-900 ft. in the air and increased its elevation throughout the course of the sighting.
December 26, 2019 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Waukegan, IL
I was walking our dog at approximately 9:45 PM due North on the sidewalk in front of our neighbors house. It was mostly dark and clear, but I could see clouds covering part of the sky. While looking up at the sky for stars I saw a green dot pass over from my right shoulder which caught my attention and I focused on it. The pinpoint emerald bright dot moved from over the neighbors garage over our open park heading North Northwest in a perfectly straight path. It moved much faster than any airplane and dissipated before the extent of my view. It looked like a green meteor burning up in the atmosphere, but was below the clouds and was bright emerald green. I could not tell if it was just over the trees, or just below the clouds. No sound could be heard on a very quiet night. No other object were seen in the vicinity. Lasted 3 seconds and no time to take a photo. Our dog did not react.
December 26, 2019 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Chicago, IL
Report two delta wing black low flying aircraft flying over the Bronzeville area of Chicago, IL flying south to north on Dec. 26, 2019 around 6:30 PM.
December 25, 2019 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Waukegan, IL
I was walking our dog at approximately 9:45 PM due North on the sidewalk in front of our neighbors house. It was mostly dark and clear, but I could see clouds covering part of the sky. While looking up at the sky for stars I saw a green dot pass over from my right shoulder which caught my attention and I focused on it. The pinpoint emerald bright dot moved from over the neighbors garage over our open park heading North Northwest in a perfectly straight path. It moved much faster than any airplane and dissipated before the extent of my view. It looked like a green meteor burning up in the atmosphere, but was below the clouds and was bright emerald green. I could not tell if it was just over the trees, or just below the clouds. No sound could be heard on a very quiet night. No other object were seen in the vicinity. Lasted 3 seconds and no time to take a photo. Our dog did not react.