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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
June 8, 2019 · 7:25 AM · OTHER
Peoria, IL
On 6/8/2019 I was walking around the second floor balcony of a hotel when I looked into the sky around 7:25 PM I noticed a huge weird Uap flying really fast around the sky with a mist around it on the west side of the Hotel, It seemed kind of close but it was about at least 300 yards away. It had a indescribable shape with flashing circle green and red lights at the bottom. I continue to walk around the second floor balcony to see if I could gather more intel about what I saw. Finally, I went back to my room on the 3d floor of the Hotel and I looked out the window it was still there. I decided to go back down to the second floor balcony to see if I could get a picture, but when I went back down it was gone.
June 7, 2019 · 10:50 PM · CIRCLE
Rockford, IL
I was outside of my house looking at the stars, then I saw one of the stars moving across the sky. That's when I realized it wasn't a star. It was moving pretty fast. I thought I was hallucinating. It just blew my mind! I never thought in my life I would see something like it. I was watching it for a solid minute, and then it just disappeared. I tried to record it, but it was too small, and iphone cameras aren't that great.
June 4, 2019 · 8:30 PM · CYLINDER
Barrington, IL
Around 8:30ish pm- still light out, my husband and I watched a shiny whitish-silver bright tube (cylinder) shaped object float slowly in the sky going west and a little south. It seemed to be very high and had no visible wings or tail and was silent. It rolled a little at one point 45 degrees and showed a bright light and rolled back. As it disappeared, a jet came by going south east towards O’Hare and was loud. Immediately after the jet passed, another tube shaped item appeared and rolled at exactly the same spot. At first we thought the object was a blimp or some type of helicopter but it made no noise. Was pretty strange and stranger to see that others have seen a simalar object. Weather balloon or military? Who knows. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 2, 2019 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Trenton, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 2, 2019 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Loves Park, IL
We witnessed an airplane disappear. We were sitting outside around 8:30 pm. An airplane was traveling west to east in the sky. It had a nice contrail behind it as it came across the sky. As it came across all of a sudden the aircraft AND the contrail disappeared. It like faded away. Was weird to witness. There was no clouds in the sky so it did not disappear behind a cloud. It just literally faded away and disappeared. No sound, but normally with aircraft that high you do not hear them anyways. The sun did reflect off of it, but couldn't tell about any aircraft on the lights. I own a very good ads-b setup here at the house. I quickly came to check out what aircraft it was. And there was no aircraft on the adsb-b in this area at the time. None that were traveling in the area or direction. So to put a long story short: We witnessed an airplane flying in the sky from west to east. I do not want to approx. the altitude. But the sun was shining off the aircraft and had a strong contrail behind it. Then it faded away above us, without a cloud in the sky. The airplane AND the contrail just faded away and disappeared. And there was nothing on my ads-b tracker. I did take a video of it with the cell phone. But with it being a cell phone, I do not know how the quality will be. About us: We frequently watch the skies and know what is normal in the skies. We frequently watch the skies for the airplanes.
May 30, 2019 · 9:48 PM · SPHERE
Cicero, IL
At approximately 9:48pm on May 30, 2019, as i was getting home from picking up my girlfriend We observed a bright white orb UFO casually moving oddly in the sky above my house slightly to the northeast not very far i say maybe 250-600 yards away from where we were standing in my backyard. I strangely noticed my camera from my phone was getting slightly out of focus every time i was trying to stay still and record like as if the ufo was making some kind of electronic scrambling ufo signals towards my phone. It moved from north to east real fast making absolutely no noise and no blinking, just super bright white orb object weaving and zoning making weird fast movements a commercial aircraft couldn’t do and at the very end it disappeared turning slightly off and on then completely turning off. Me and my girlfriend were discombobulated after it disappeared. It also affected us emotionally like it sent out some kind of stealth ufo signals towards us making us feel out of place for 2-3 hours. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 29, 2019 · 12:53 PM · DISK
Chicago, IL
Upon looking at the pic I noticed what appears to be a “disk like or “hat-like" metalic shape" with a lighter color “underbelly" outlined by a dark ring there also appears to be 1 smaller object with it off to the left and up and I have same image in same spot in 3 pics. Time was 12:53 conditions….cloudy/overcast no rain in area. Pics taken on galaxy s9+.
May 26, 2019 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
ELMHURST, IL
Space Link satellites. PD
May 26, 2019 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Elmhurst, IL
Space Link satellites. PD
May 24, 2019 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Chicago, IL
UFO Car Hit I was driving back home on Randall road in Batavia IL. When I made a stop at a red light. A UFO sliver ball about bowling ball size, slammed or portal right at my cars back bumper. I have pictures of the damage of corse. I also found that the google earth car itself got pictures of this UFO that’s right in front of my house.
May 16, 2019 · 2:13 AM · RECTANGLE
Joliet, IL
I was on a boat ramp near the hickory Creek near the cellar gentleman's club by myself it flew probably like 500 ft right over me I was in awe didn't even think about getting my camera I also saw four orb craft and one Chevron at the same site the craft was rectangular and I could see like piping on the bottom at the bottom was lit up red even though in the middle there was an orange flickering light hanging down it made no noise
May 13, 2019 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Aurora, IL
We were looking high into the east sky if that helps. Still light outside. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 12, 2019 · 11:54 PM · CIRCLE
Chicago, IL
A large, dark circular silhouette of a craft weaved in and out of the clouds moving south (away from O’Hare) and towards Indiana. We live near typical flight paths, and this was moving against the grain. It sounded like a fighter jet, but quieter. I could hear it cutting through the clouds, but it was completely circular and had no lights on whatsoever. It maneuvered directly up and down, then shot across the sky at a speed I have never seen before. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 10, 2019 · 10:46 PM · OTHER
Rochester, IL
At around 10:45 pm on 5/10/19 my friend and I where standing outside when I noticed a bright orb falling into the woods behind the field of my neighbor's house. The orb was a hazy white color with a pale green glow around it and a skippy fire looking trail as it went down. The trail had more of an orange glow. My friend did not witness the first one as she had her back to the woods. There was no sound to the falling object which was weird considering its appearing size (looked to be the size of a small car). I insisted she stay outside with me and watch the area of the sky with me because I had never seen anything like it. We ended up going inside after about 15 minutes later. About 1.5 hours later we went back outside to smoke and we both witnessed the same sight, roughly in the same area of sky, maybe a couple miles to the right of the previous one. They looked identical except the 2nd one looked closer. Again there was no sound to accompany the falling o! bject. No other sightings throughout the night.
May 10, 2019 · 8:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Fox Lake, IL
Saw yellow/bronze colored triangular shaped object slowly traveling from south to north below clouds maybe 2000 feet high (?) My wife went for camera and object appeared to slowly rise vertically ascending upwards perhaps on an 85 degree angle until it was just a black dot and we lost sight of it. Duration maybe 3 minutes. There was no discernible audio sounds as in an engine noise. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 10, 2019 · 12:00 AM
Chicago, IL
I come out of the bathroom, she said there was a strange light that flashed in the distance, somewhere between Minnehaha Park and the Mpls Airport. Today is May 10, 2019. She said it was a bright light that looked like a meteor shower.
May 6, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Auburn, IL
Saw two ufo's tonight, possibly three, on the north-west side of Auburn, looking towards the west. Two were up relatively high and a ways apart. One was lower and closer. They just looked like bright lights in the sky, but a bit too far away to make out actual shapes. They were just hovering and flashing red, green, blue, yellow and white, we watched the lower one about 20 minutes or so, then it just disappeared. The other was higher up and farther away, but looked the same as the other lower one, flashing different colors. Then a solid reddish light seemed to come out of that one and flew off pretty fast, then it spread out into what looked like three lights, one solid red and a flashing white and red light. and flew off. When we left where we were, the higher up one was still hovering there in the same spot. There were 5 witnesses to this.
April 26, 2019 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Oak Lawn, IL
It flew slowly from west to east and then turned slightly and headed south east. There are many airplanes and helicopters in my area but this was flying much slower then a helicopter or landing airplane. There is a video i will upload it after my description. It was a bright orange circle solid in color not blinking and had no other lights and was completely silent. Also, the wind was blowing west north west at 8mph this was going east and made a southern manuver before it rose upwards into the clouds. I zoomed in to get a better picture of the object and also zoomed out so the houses and trees can be used a reference the video explains everything in great detail.
April 21, 2019 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Sparland, IL
I was getting ready to go to bed and my dog started whining. I look outside and saw a huge orangeish red fiery light. I got pics and video.
April 17, 2019 · 5:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Sparland, IL
I was taking pictures of crazy looking clouds and an airplane. I kept seeing dark shapes behind the clouds. When reviewing pictures i saw i got pictures of more than one black triangle.
April 16, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Macomb, IL
A light would appear, followed by one or more lights slightly in front of it which sometimes looked like fireworks or some kind of explosion, and the first light would disappear. There were two sets of these. This continued across the sky for at least 2 minutes before disappearing completely. There was no noise from it.
April 16, 2019 · 9:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Lewistown, IL
Red and white lights off in the distance looked to be parts of 2 or 3 flying objects, at least one of which was rotating somewhat slowly. The lights disappeared and then reappeared, eventually disappearing over some trees from our front porch view point. I tried to get some video, but it was dark and it doesn't show much. Not sure what it was, but we've never seen anything quite like this before. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 16, 2019 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Macomb, IL
A light would appear, following by one or more lights slightly in front of it which sometimes looked like fireworks or some kind of explosion, and the first light would disappear. There were two sets of these. This continued across the sky for at least 2 minutes before disappearing completely. There was no noise from it.
April 16, 2019 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Galesburg, IL
I really don't know that i believe in UFOs but I have not found an explanation of what i saw. i live in the country. It's pretty flat around my house. I had taken the dogs out. and noticed some strange lights to the south several miles away and pretty high in sky (maybe 45 degree angle from ground). there was large cloud cover on the lower part of the horizon, but just above the clouds is where i saw the strange orangish lights. Actually, i was wondering if something on a plane was on fire because of the orange color and looked like orange sparks erupting too....kinda like a few cheap dud fireworks (but too high up for fireworks & sparks stayed just around the source....but then as i watched ...maybe 5 min max.... there seemed to be several orange sources that darted up and down and would disappear momentarily down in the clouds but then popped back out. when i first saw the lights they were to the south east of our house, but they moved on west and then disappeared into the cloud cover. the lights didn't go in a straight line like planes and helicopters or meteors/shooting stars do in the night sky. the lights darted all around moving from east to west up and down and in and out of the line of cloud cover...like fire spots in the sky with sparks. I really couldn't make out any shape. they finally disappeared and i went back inside. I searched for others who maybe saw the lights to explain it away as it was very noticable from my view....but haven't been able to find anyone seeing what i saw... i can only think i was at a good vantage point and could see about the line of clouds on the south horizon?? i'd really love to have someone know what i was seeing. I did get a couple very short videos and photo with my iphone7.