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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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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 15, 2019 · 4:03 AM · TRIANGLE
Gilberts, IL
Was standing on my backyard deck and saw a arrow like formation of orange lights fly across the sky. The object was going very fast and was about cloud level. It flew out of sight over my roof and the entire sighting was about 2 seconds in total. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 15, 2019 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Oregon, IL
I would like to know if anyone else has seen somthing similar... My step son and I were driving down route 64 in illinois. All of a sudden we saw a huge bright light coming at us at an unreal speed. We starred at it we had no time to react. In my head i was telling myself its a car in the wrong lane but somthing was telling me it wasnt. Then all of a sudden what felt like 2 mins which actually made me late to my destination by tens mins so i know it was longer. It flew straight at us and ten mins later I was still driving straight down 64 didn't crash but had no idea what we had been doing or where we were at for ten mins. There is ten mins unaccounted for! I know this for a fact!! Where did we go... how did i drive straight with no recelection of ten mins of my time. I had not drank any booze or took any drugs! Now when I look in the sky or drive at night it creeps me out! I didnt see any metal objects or little green men but I know what I did see and it wasn't are military! I cannot account for that time! And I still cant look at the sky at night for long periods of time. I didn't feel like anything hurt me at all. Oh and it was 100 percent completely quiet not one sound!
April 13, 2019 · 11:25 PM · CROSS
Bartlett, IL
(Disclaimer: This is an old story from when I was in high school, I've since moved away. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I have several videos but will not put them online as part of them takes place at my house) My friends and I were driving around and saw a strange aircraft, a cross shape with rounded ends like two popsicle sticks. There was a white light on each end. It flew straight, stopped in midair and hovered, then flew another direction without turning. We tried following it, but we noticed a lot of helicopters in the sky including one that seemed to always be going the same way we were, so we grew anxious and gave up the chase. We witnessed the aircraft again (or a different one) near the intersection of Bartlett & 59, and this time it was doing flips in the air. About the size of a 747 or something but definitely not a plane. It would rotate upside down (if it even had a sense of 'upside down'), fly around, stop on a dime, go a different direction, go straight up or straight down while parallel to the ground, a lot of different things. It flew off to the north and we gave up following. Then we saw another one on Struckman Blvd near Sunrise Park. It was the most active, doing barrel rolls and all the actions described above. It was also lower in the sky, so we got a sense of how big it was. As we headed home, suddenly the sky was full of big passenger planes (Boeings and such) flying extremely low with bright lights on, so bright they functioned as spotlights on the ground and too low to realistically land anywhere except the small local airport (though that was in a different direction). Obviously they didn't crash, but it seemed like they were looking for something.
April 5, 2019 · 8:18 PM · FLASH
Oregon, IL
We were driving cross country to Wisconsin, and saw a bright white flashing light in the sky. At first, we assumed it was just a radio tower or a commercial aircraft, but on closer inspection, there was no tower and it hadn’t moved in inch since we saw it. We pulled over and decided to take a look outside our car for a couple minutes, before it stopped flashing. After witnessing the final flash, an very light aura of blue (Barely noticeable) surrounded the area where the flashing was, and quickly disappeared as a shadow disappeared into the night sky.
April 2, 2019 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Chicago, IL
We seen 3 lights in the sky.. standing still in the air for minutes at a time. Then they went into a triangle formation. Then it look like the lights went to a single file line. They were sitting in mid air over lakeshore drive which is a body of water. This water strength into Lake Michigan. This sitting was film out of a building on the 25th floor on lakeshore drive... The lights started to disappear one by one and then reappear.
April 1, 2019 · 11:59 PM · CHEVRON
Lake Zurich, IL
Night of April 1, 2019, around 11:58 pm ending no later than April 2, 12:02 am. I was travelling North bound (NW) on Old McHenry Rd in Lake Zurich, IL, past Twin Orchard Country Club on my right and then past Heron Creek Forest Preserve. After I crossed Rt 22 (Half Day Rd) I had noticed some white lights low in the sky on my left above the Kemper Lake in the Golf Course. As I I realized the lights were not the type one could see on the commercial aircraft I pulled over and watched them approach. The object was travelling east (SE). The object had a massive “grill” in front and it emanated red glow in the shape of a horizontal rectangle. There were two light areas symmetrically placed on both sides of the red “grill”. I can’t tell what was the size of the “grill”, but the total distance between the white lights areas (on opposite sides of the “grill”) was approx. 120 meters. The object was emitting very low hum. I had seen strange lights (glowing white points) in the area before (going back to 2017), but had never seen anything this big with the red grill and the sound.
April 1, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Worth, IL
This is near Midway airport and there were several planes in the sky, but none emitting the bright light as this object and none moving anywhere near as fast. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 26, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Hanna City, IL
There were 3 lights in the sky and only one was moving, but the other two stood still. The lights were white but they had 3 or 4 lights each.
March 16, 2019 · 10:05 PM · DIAMOND
Lawrenceville, IL
I exited the backdoor to bring in the little dog in the pen. I walked about 1/3 of the way to the pen, when I saw something red in the sky in the distance. It was west of Lawrenceville but headed east. It looked diamond shaped. I continued to get my dog in the pen. Then I look in the sky again and the object was no longer in the distance but was closer. It came closer and closer and made absolutely no noise. I had believed it was a helicopter or a very large drone at first. But I heard nothing. It finally came close enough that it appeared as a red diamond the size of my fist in the sky. I then thought.... holy ((one word deleted)), this is a UFO. I ran to the door and opened it and yelled to my wife "Come here. Come here. UFO! UFO! Come see it. I then run in the house and yell again. My wife is snoring and almost snorting and she says leave me alone. My 7 year old son comes sprinting out of his bedroom in his underwear and no shirt and says "Show me, Daddy". He goes out back with me and it is leaving. It was heading southwest but you could still see it through the canopy of trees. It was now the size of a diamond shaped silver dollar in the sky and appeared to be getting smaller and then finally went black. My son was amazed. I wish he had seen it when it was the size of my fist in the sky. One of the top 25 moments in my life. I've always wanted to see one. Who knows, maybe it really was alien in origin?
March 16, 2019 · 9:10 AM · CIGAR
Batavia, IL
I was video chatting with my friend, when I heard this strange, low rumble. Kind of like a toned-down jet sound. I looked out my window and happened to touch my window, and it was vibrating softly. I didn't see much, considering it was nighttime, but I saw three green lights, I believe they were all green. The thing was much too large to be a helicopter and wasn't a plane, I don't think, if I didn't know better I'd say it was a giant flying submarine. There was one light in front, one in the middle a little higher up than the others, and one in the back. It seemed to be headed southeasterly from where I live. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 15, 2019 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Bunker Hill, IL
I have never witnessed anything like this before. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 15, 2019 · 7:01 PM · SPHERE
Richton Park, IL
We were driving East on Sauk Trail when I noticed a spherical, extremely bright, white reflective-looking light in the sky ahead of us that seemed to be pulsating. I would compare the color of the light to the color of a white LED light. I started recording with my phone. It did not appear to be moving, but rather, hovering. We watched/filmed it for just about a minute and then it just disappeared. It did not seem to fly up, down or to either side; it just vanished. I only saw one. Once you press play, zoom in to see it better. Myself, my fiancé and our 9 year old son were present during this event. I am always looking at the sky to see if I can spot anything interesting, and my fiancé was driving, so I had the opportunity to record it.
March 5, 2019 · 10:20 PM · CHANGING
Fairview Heights, IL
Seen very bright, white lights blinking due South from my home, within the tree line. The degree of brightness is what drew my attention. The aircraft was not moving in a specific direction, left or right, rather seemed more side to side but hard to confidently say with the wind and treeline moving. After about 5 minutes, it became clear the object was heading in a Northeast direction, almost straight to me. At some point the blurry bright lights broke the treeline and it was 2 sets of the bright lights, blinking. Im guessing about 1 second intervals between the two sets, for a total of 4 lights. At this point, I went and got my youngest daughter, 9 yr old, I assumed the object to be in a “cigar” shape, as the two sets of white lights were horizontal. About 10 minutes into sighting, the object made no sound, no noise at all. I assumed this was a drone, although everyone around me is older, my closest neighbor are family or friends, no possible drone for a! estimated 1/4 mi radius. At some point of moving Northeast, say 12-15 minutes into sighting a third and forth set of blinking lights began, red in color. Then, 2Sets bright white, 2 sets red, white in front red in back according to flight direction. My daughter says...what in the world...then a line of white dots, not flickering, appeared under the 2 sets of white and 2 sets of red, estimating 10 non flickering, smalller “dots”. Object remained to appear in cigar form until it turned, in which it made a 90* once it had passed being perpendicular to me. When this happened, the lights seemed to spread out, as in a 4 corners pattern, 1 set percorner with white remaining in front and red in back. At this point I was yelling into house for my wife, she lacks the capacity to make sense out of shiny moving objects in the sky, she simply nervously laughs but knows the lights arent natural. Let me back up, after the lights Turned into four sets to 1 to 0 in the bottom but right b! efore it had reached us a perpendicular to me I finally heard ! a jet en gine that seem to be coming from the onject. Seemed out of ratio though, awefully loud for what looked to be further away. 4 sets of light, ( one in each of the 4 corners, jet sound, making what ended up to being about 120* turn heading due west towards Lambert Airport the flashing lights made a “outline” of a circle, a circle inside the 4 corners. My 9 yr old pointed it out and started to get nervous. Not sure if wife seen the circle inside the 4 lit up corners, once the object got far enough it ended up being just the 2 sets of white lightsagain in a horizontal direction. The entire event took about 25-30 minutes in total. I went back outside after warming ipfor about 10 minites, seen another object with similar lights including the degree Of brightness, going in back towards location it had begun from but no jet sound and furthur. East than it was when it passed me first time.
February 28, 2019 · 1:25 AM · SPHERE
Mt. Prospect, IL
Orb doing figure 8s in sky after I’d returned from a showered, brushed it off as nothing. Minutes late two loud booms outside, no shaking, but very audible. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 25, 2019 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Galatia, IL
On November 30th, 2018, I underwent my 3rd shoulder surgery and during the next few months I participated in physical therapy to strengthen my shoulder just as I had done from previous surgeries and I was healing very well. One morning at the end of February, after a good night's sleep, I woke up with horrible pain in my shoulder. As painful as before my surgery, but I knew that after 3 months of healing and strengthening through physical therapy, I could not have injured it while sleeping, yet the pain was almost unbearable. I had not taken any pain medication since the third week of December, but this morning I took a prescribed pain reliever to try and overcome the problem... But, I was about to experience something that could not be explained, could not be treated, and could not be reported for fear of the outcome. When I got out of bed, took a pain reliever and drank a cup of coffee, I headed to the shower. When I stepped into the shower and started to wash my hair, my whole world seemed to stop for a few seconds. From the edge of my hairline in the front above my forehead, all the way back to the crown of my head was a very wide and very high scab of dried blood about 3 inches long. This scab was as if I had a deep cut that was 3 or 4 weeks old or more that was never sewn up but left to heal on its own. The scab of dried blood was hard, wide, and raised about a quarter of an inch. It itched as if it were an injury that was well into the healing process. My head was fine when I went to bed the night before, but the morning after I was dealing with something that I could not explain. I picked at this scab for weeks before I finally got it all cleaned up. I had no pain in or on my head and no fresh blood. Just this huge scab from a large cut on top of my head that was well into the healing process and now I once again had severe pain in my shoulder. I called the V.A. Hospital and made an appointment to see the Orthopedic Surgeon who had performed the surgery on my shoulder. When I attended my appointment he assumed that maybe I just had some inflamation and injected a steroid medication into my shoulder. I never mentioned what happened to my head as I feared being diagnosed by the V.A. with some mental issue. A few weeks later I returned with the continued pain, so the Doctor ordered another MRI to see what was wrong. The MRI verified that the shoulder repair that was performed on November 30th was completely torn apart and in worse condition than before the surgery. The doctor said the damage looked like I had been hanging by my arm which would have torn apart the tendons that were not completely healed yet... I explained that I had not done anything that would have caused this and he just shrugged his shoulders... He made me an appointment with an outside surgeon for consideration of a complete shoulder replacement. Since that time I have undergone my 4th shoulder repair surgery on September 11th. No complete replacement was done, but a complete reconstructive surgery was performed using bovine collagen patches from a cow to help me grow new tissue... I am currently in physical therapy and hoping to heal up well. I truly believe that I experienced an abduction that night. No professional explanation can solidify how the large cut was made on my head and partially healed in the manner that it was, nor the reason that my shoulder repair was completely destroyed as it was. And, that's not all... The V.A. has also notified me to inform me that it appears that I may now have prostate cancer. I am required by the V.A. to have a complete physical every six months and I have had zero symptoms, my PSA has always been normal and I have always had excellent Lab reports. Until now...... I am scheduled to see a Prostate Cancer Specialist in St. Louis on the 29th of this month for further testing. I cannot disclose this information regarding my thoughts of abduction to anyone, nor I cannot prove anything... I just know what I know, and I know that whatever happened to me is not normal, nor is it explainable in a way that would be acceptable other than an abduction. I just felt like sharing this with you. Thank you for reading and please keep my identity anonymous. Kindest regards, -Joe
February 17, 2019 · 3:05 AM · CHANGING
Benld, IL
3 circular discs flew together to form Triangle. I looked out my bedroom window as car was sitting in cold window staring outside. I looked to my left and right above tree tops 3 saucers flew in triangular form to be one. Heavy spotlights on front that turned off and another would turn.
January 15, 2019 · 8:23 PM · TRIANGLE
Pickneyville (east of), IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 4, 2019 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Streator, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 4, 2019 · 2:09 AM · LIGHT
Spring Grove/Fox Lake, IL
Rideshare experience; While driving for Uber, noticed a large super bright stationary light in what I would guess was the NW sky. My passenger and I watched it for roughly 20 minutes between Lakemoor, Il and Spring Grove, Il. It never moved. Then somewhere after 20-25 minutes, it disappeared. I went to see if it was still there while driving and it was gone. It certainly was not an airplane in que, loitering for landing permission at Ohare. It was stationary for at least 20 minutes without changing in size or brightness. While I chose "there were lights on the object," I never saw an object, merely the lights on the object.
January 3, 2019 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Wadsworth, IL
I wanted to film it, but it was too fast to think about it and open my camera on my phone. I have never seen anything like this. Feel free to contact me via email.
December 31, 2018 · 8:55 PM · OVAL
Brookfield, IL
We saw a red ball of light flying from the northwest heading southeast. As it got closer, the color didn’t change, and it didn’t make any noise. It seemed to stop and change direction slightly and continue on. At first we thought it was an aircraft on fire. It didn’t look like any helicopter or plane as many have passed overhead. We do live near an airport, but it did not head in that direction.
December 31, 2018 · 12:00 AM · TEARDROP
Schaumburg, IL
Exactly at midnight 12 teardopped shapespacecrafts filled the sky and raced in oval shaped patterns very quickly in the sky.
December 29, 2018 · 11:08 PM · LIGHT
Sugar Grove, IL
I was driving home when I noticed in the sky there was a big bright shaped sphere of light in the middle of the dark sky. It was 11:00 at night so it was very dark every where else but in this one area in the sky.