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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
December 23, 2019 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
LaSalle, IL
20 star like lights in a stream moving across the sky and 1 at a time the the in front would ascend up and disappeared
December 23, 2019 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Skokie, IL
What appeared to be stars like the others in the sky. One started to move and stop. Phone pulled out and recorded the rest this is my 3rd recorded sighting in 6 months same location. Much activity this years in the area. But was never able to record what I did here. Please understand that what you are seeing as exactly what the stars looked like in the clear black night.. they formed a perfect triangle at the end. Stayed like that for 30 min and gone
December 22, 2019 · 6:49 PM · LIGHT
Coal City, IL
Moving swiftly, vertical into sky & disappeared, one at a time,at same location. 3 small aircraft seen well below 'disappearing sight' buzzing around, perhaps noticed them, too. One final light lagged behind, sped up & 'disappeared' at same spot.
December 22, 2019 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Morrison, IL
12 starlike lights traveling from the southwest going towards the north. Separated in equal distance and traveled faster than an airplane would. They would travel so far and then disappear in the same spot. Then there was one last light that traveled behind and did the same thing.
December 22, 2019 · 6:38 PM · LIGHT
Aurora, IL
See a lot of airplanes fly overhead toward Ohare and Midway. Initially thought of multiple airplanes traveling on the same IFR, until I noticed the lights never blinked. Somewhere between 20 and 25 lights were spaced approximately the same distance apart and were traveling in the same direction. At one location in the sky the lights would becoming dimmer until they disappeared. They all disappeared at the same physical location in the sky. I could not capture video because my camera could not focus on the dim lights.
December 22, 2019 · 6:35 PM · LIGHT
Huntley, IL
5 lights maybe more. Moving from South to North in a straight line, hundreds of feet apart. At first look they seemed like stars, however they were all moving in a straight light faster than a plane flies at a high altitude. When they got to a certain point in the sky, the lights just disappeared one by one. There were no clouds in the sky on this night.
December 22, 2019 · 6:35 PM · LIGHT
Huntley, IL
5 lights maybe more. Moving from South to North in a straight line, hundreds of feet apart. At first look they seemed like stars, however they were all moving in a straight light faster than a plane flies at a high altitude. When they got to a certain point in the sky, the lights just disappeared one by one. There were no clouds in the sky on this night.
December 22, 2019 · 6:35 PM · LIGHT
Herscher, IL
I was walking our 2 huskies and to the west of our home on the 7000 south rd. I noticed a string of what i thought were stars forming a constellation until i realized i have never seen this particular formation in the sky. the reason i thought they were stars at first , is because they did"nt blink like strobes on typical aircraft do.So when i stopped and picked a fixed object in the sky, i could see that all of the objects were moving in a straight line, evenly spaced apart and moving from the southwest to the northeast. There was no jet engine noise like the air traffic coming from O'hare and Midway airports. The other strange thing i noticed , is when eachn of the objects reached a certain area of the north easterly direction they were all travelling, they disappeared one after the other until they were all gone. The objects i observed were to high in the night sky to determin if they were saucer, cigar shape, or for that matter , maybe high altitud! e bombers or fighters flying in military formation and when they got to a certain altitude, they all turned off their landing lights one by one. I don't know what i witnessed, but for all of the years we have lived out here in the country and all of the times i have looked to the stars, i have never seen anything like i did tonight. I was the only witness to what i saw because by the time i got back to the house to get my wife to come outside to witness what i had seen, They were gone .
December 22, 2019 · 6:32 PM · SPHERE
Lisle, IL
My wife and I were out walking the dog tonight at 6:30 PM, 18:30 hours when we looked to the southwest, a line of lights we’re moving in the sky, perfectly spaced distance between them, and going to the northeast. I have watched the International Space Station travel overhead many times which is approximately 250 miles above in orbit. Theses objects appeared much higher up, the same size as stars, traveling in a straight line, at least eight of them stretched halfway across the horizon and traveled perfectly spaced apart to the northeast. It was stunning to see these objects, they looked like a whole new constellation of perfectly aligned stars, only they were moving fast inline. The objects travel across the horizon for about 10 minuets, continuing northeast until we lost sight of them.
December 22, 2019 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Rockford, IL
The event was already occurring when I became cognizant. Numerous lights that appeared at first to be distant stars quickly became apparent that they were organized in a single file line. All lights were moving at the same speed and were evenly spaced in the line. Only 6 or 7 visible at a time. All lights appeared in the same location of origin and disappeared in the same location of exit. A second eye witness joined mid way. Watched the same event unfold until no more lights appeared. The final light observed seemed to linger for a moment before disappearing in the same location-perhaps in pursuit?
December 22, 2019 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Troy Grove, IL
There was a line of very noticeable lights traveling north east over middle Illinois. There were 20-25 lights in a very evenly spaced straight line. After about what I would call 4-5 mins they would disappear in the same spot and same way they showed up.
December 22, 2019 · 6:28 PM · CIRCLE
Chicago, IL
My wife and I saw approx. 12-15 round white lights traveling in N/E in a straight line, spaced approx. the same distance apart. The objects appeared to be very high in the sky and moving very quickly. There wasn't any noticeable blinking lights that would typically be associated with regular aircraft, and there wasn't any sound. We are used to seeing planes in the area as we live in a flight path of O'hare Airport, but we've never seen anything like this before. We tried to take video from our cell phones but because of the night sky our phones weren't picking up the objects on video. We were able to get a few pics on our cell phone that showed some of what we saw.
December 22, 2019 · 8:00 AM · CIRCLE
Chicago, IL
I saw a very big circle like thing in the sky with very strong lights in purple lavender pink color flashing very strong over trees right about for at least 20 min then it faded away I have video it looked like a very big Christmas ornament flashing these colors so strong yet jus sitting there ..I DNT know what I saw but ..I feel this wasn't something I've very herd or known of I felt nervous looking at this and felt like I shouldn't be filming it ..I don't know what it was or if anyone else saw it because it was early in the morning but the lights where very vivid so many someone else did ..and I was the only one to come out side to see not sure..but definitely confused
December 12, 2019 · 2:00 PM · OTHER
Lisle, IL
Walking from my car back to my office getting back from lunch, I heard and saw a flock of geese flying behind a couple of trees about 100 feet behind my office building landing near a pond near the trees. It was a vivid blue sky and a bright sunny and very chilly day, and out of the corner of my eye noticed something above the tallest tree moving in the sky. It was seemingly very high up, but looked like a toy top shape, like a wizzer from the 70s. It was silvery-white, and seemed to be slightly glowing, or hazy. The thing shot forward very fast, then seemed to shoot back to where it had been very fast again, it did this three times. After the third time it seemed to get a bit lower, more slowly, then I lost sight of it behind the building next to ours. I did set my lunch down quickly on the parking lot and tried to take several pics with my cellphone, but even though the object was right in the viewfinder, nothing showed up on any of the pics I took.
December 10, 2019 · 5:40 PM · LIGHT
Highland, IL
While looking at the International Space Station Fly directly overhead I saw a bright object that looked to be in pursuit of the Station; it flew past the station at incredible speed while pulsing and beaming off light before going dark. When ever it past the station it pulsed one last time and then disappeared. It pulsed about four times and this took place at 5:40 central time in the USA over Illinois.
December 3, 2019 · 5:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Shelbyville, IL
It looked to be on fire. Green and yellow and I would see pointed ends. It was going in front of my car in a downward direction and we looked to our left to see where it was going to crash but it didn't. The light of it went out before hitting earth. We don't know what it was, At first I thought it was an aircraft that was on fire and going to crash. We heard no sound from it.
November 28, 2019 · 6:15 AM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
My husband set up his phone for a time lapse video in the alley behind our garage as he loaded his pickup truck. The video shows him loading, then driving away (forgot his phone was on the fence. After he drove away, the video shows the phone shifted it’s focus up above the garage. He then returns and begins looking for the phone. While he is looking, two white lights appear in the sky over the garage. Even though the phone is still on time lapse video, the lights don’t move and you can see clouds are moving over the lights. A third light appears briefly forming a triangle. No craft is apparent - just lights. We are married, have 3 daughters, and two dogs. We both own our own businesses and my husband runs Christmas tree lots - why he was loading his truck early morning.
November 24, 2019 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Thomson, IL
light flashing blue green red and white moving slow.
November 23, 2019 · 6:58 AM · CIRCLE
chicago, IL
i was taking an exit Jackson from highway on 90/94 and looked at the highway to see how bad is traffic on other side and apparently saw a circle object was moving on the sky (from east to west slowly approx 80-90mph or faster) downtown area. i stopped to see it because building blocked me and other cars behind me did not allow me to stay on the road much.
November 22, 2019 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Bradley, IL
I start with this: I saw a falling star around 2000 hours in the Eastern sky at approximately 80 degrees off the horizon. I felt like going to my backyard to observe the sky there, facing west. I sat down on my back porch. I looked up and witness a blurry shape of about 5-7 light points moving north to south in the western sky, approximately 40 degrees off the horizon. I saw it move for approximately 10 seconds, quite unsure of what it was and if I was seeing this correctly. It was unambiguously not a falling star, nor a plane. It had a triangular shape, point facing in the flight direction of southerly direction. Again, the points of light were fuzzy, but still discernible as points of light. It did not travel fast like a falling star, but was slow. From horizon north to horizon south, I witnessed it travel about 15% of this distance, having my view of the whole horizon interrupted by bare tree cover.
November 22, 2019 · 6:25 PM · LIGHT
Wataga, IL
My friend and i were pulling in the driveway around 6:20 pm on 12/22/2019. We seen around 15 lights flying in a perfect line without making a sound. We watched for about 15 minutes as they would disappear at the same point in the shy. Right up until the last one make it to that same spot. Then gone like the rest and without making a sound.
November 14, 2019 · 3:00 AM · CIRCLE
Vienna, IL
It was hovering in neighbors yard across the street. He said it hovered there for a moment then raised straight in the sky and came to our yard, where be said it hovered in our yard for about 1 min, then flew over our house and he lost sight of it. He called me(I was at work) and he was absolutely terrified about what he had just seen. I asked him to draw me a picture on his phone of what he had seen and he did. I've always been a skeptic of UFO sightings but I know my son was not lying about what he saw. He has a great ability to pay attention to detail.
November 10, 2019 · 7:00 PM · CROSS
Byron, IL
The object was moving north and stopped for about 5min and slowly went south. Looked like a cross with different colored lights. Very bright. The lights seemed the be changing colors.
November 7, 2019 · 6:58 PM · UNKNOWN
Aurora, IL
Driving home from the gym, I saw 6 unknown craft in the sky. They split off into two pairs of three. As I turned towards home, I noticed one craft gliding through the sky. As I continued to drive, it was obvious the craft was picking up speed. Planes are not allowed that close to each other nor can than hover and change diresction the way these did.