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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
May 28, 2017 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Wonder Lake, IL
Observed orange lights rising from west to east and continue to gain altitude moving east. As an orange light would rise another would follow. This continued for approx. 1 hour. This could have been going on before we started seeing the lights. Tried to use binoculars (8x 20x40) could not distinguish shape.
May 28, 2017 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Oak Lawn, IL
I looked it up if it was a satellite and none were flying by at the time I saw this. It moved about twice as fast as the ISS that I usually see. I looked up that the ISS flew by at around 8:49PM according to a website that it would be flying by in my town when I typed in my zip code 60453. This object that was no satellite flew by at 9:50PM. It was slowly pulsating every 2 to 4 seconds for the first 12 seconds then it stopped then the last 15 seconds it would get bright and sometimes the brightness faded a little. It flew almost over head. One witness I was with would barely want to look at it when I was telling them to look at it. They did say the saw for a second. They told me it was white and was maybe space junk. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 27, 2017 · 12:00 PM
Dolton, IL
Source provides no information. PD
May 27, 2017 · 12:35 AM · LIGHT
Orland Park, IL
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 21, 2017 · 11:48 PM · FLASH
Wilmington, IL
I just see flashes in the sky and they are reflecting both off of the sky and at times my porch can be seen with out the clouds
May 18, 2017 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Des Plaines, IL
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. Possible sighting of a celestial body?? PD
May 17, 2017 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Edwardsville, IL
As I said, the lights were solid, not flashing like aircraft lights. There were also many stars visible that, of course, weren't moving. Not sure what they were, but I've never seen anything like that. I'm really just curious if anyone else saw them, and exactly what they were. Thanks
May 15, 2017 · 6:40 PM · CHANGING
Oak Lawn, IL
I forget the exact times I saw them both. The first one I saw was at around 6:35PM and the second one I saw was at about 7:20PM. The first and second were both black and small. They both were going in directions. The first one was farther away to take a photo of. The first was super high in the sky prepared to the second one was lower. They both were moving slow at around the same speed. The second was super close and going over a house past a plane that must of took off from midway airport. I couldn't take a video of it because I was on the phone with an old friend. I told the friend who lives in Florida now when I was on the phone with him that it was going over your old house right now because he use to live in Illinois. I told him on the phone it might be just a balloon. The second one seem to chang shape a little or it was slowly rotating. I saw the first one for about 15 seconds and the second one for about 2 minutes. It felt like there was no wind outside. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 14, 2017 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Des Plaines, IL
I was out in my backyard when I saw a bright red-orange fireball shaped object through my tree. It was traveling east to west very high in the sky. Thought it was a plane at first but no other lights and as stated, was very high in the sky. As it traveled it turned shades of red to orange and pulsed. Eventually totally vanished from sight like a light turned off. Near O'Hare airport.
May 14, 2017 · 8:23 AM · CIRCLE
Chicago, IL
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 30, 2017 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Belleville, IL
Close to the horizon, there were 3 lights in a triangular shape. As we watched, they turned in a circle, still keeping their triangular formation.
April 28, 2017 · 8:18 PM · UNKNOWN
Franklin Park, IL
We stepped out on our deck to smoke a cigarette, and I noticed this red light in the sky is was coming from the north and heading south it was moving very fast my husband yelled for me to get my camera and I recorded what we saw at first there were like 6 or 7 of them and they would slow down and disappear in the clouds and then a few seconds later another one was coming moving very fast and then another one this lasted about 13 or 14 minutes I took some videos and post them on Facebook to see if anybody else saw this I watched the news and I didn't hear nothing and friend told me to repot it to a ufo web site these were no airplane as I live close to the airport airplanes make a lot of noise there was no noise it was quiet the also had a red glow to them I really don't know what they were but I figured it wouldn't hurt to find out.
April 20, 2017 · 4:56 AM · LIGHT
Bridgeview, IL
Single blue light darting above and below clouds in near-Southern sky (ceiling at the time approximately 2000'). No noise. Object turned 180 degrees in an instant, and made several extremely sharp turns. Lost sight of object behind a building. Approximate distance of object was .5 miles to .75 miles away. Source of the report provides no contact information. PD
April 16, 2017 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Bolingbrook, IL
Was driving northbound Interstate 355, when i noticed a large bright formation to the southwest of where we were, and they were all at different elevations, but none of which exceeded 100ft off the ground. Lights where bright white and very large bigger than any star I've seen and the formation and movements were unexplainable in all honesty.
April 12, 2017 · 10:13 AM · FORMATION
Rochelle, IL
Looking in sky after jets spraying Chem trails. Heavy Chem trails today. Was watching jet flying over head coming from east. Suddenly below I witnessed 4 lights in a row front angled slightly down moving westward. Was flying lower. Lights almost seemed refractory but were flashing. At first was thinking geese but never have I seen their wings refract sun light. Then disappeared. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 10, 2017 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Phoenix, IL
I was on my way to work early Monday morning, when I decided to take a picture of the moonlight, shooting upwards. Upon taking the picture, I saw an object quickly moving back and forth. It looked like a faint star. I couldn't see the object with the naked eye.
April 8, 2017 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Tinley Park, IL
I just purchased a night vision setup, with a digital video recorder. I was messing around recording the night sky looking towards the NE for about 5 mins and then went on my computer to check the footage. I discovered while watching this back a white circle object on the center right hand side of my computer screen dart in and out, about a total of 1 second. I have watch this footage on other devices and still remains and dosent appear to be a glitch or pixilation.
April 4, 2017 · 9:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Chicago, IL
Sitting in my bedroom and hearing the sound of a helicopter that was very loud, I got up to look out of my window, and saw the the helicopter hovering over the expressway in the S.E.sky. As I was about to sit down, out the corner of my eye, I noticed very high in the S.W. sky a triangular-shape object with five white lights on each side, and one big light in the center. To make sure I wasn't seeing things, I took out my binoculars, and noticed a smaller triangular shape object next to the big one with flashing white lights. After watching it for fifteen minutes it disappeared.
April 1, 2017 · 1:10 AM · LIGHT
Arlington Heights, IL
Driving eastbound at night on Golf Road, east of Interstate 90, I saw a light, comparable in size to that of an airplane, becomes visible in my windshield as it speeds forward – so, also going eastbound. It was going about a few times faster than an airplane; it wasn't as though it was gone in a flash. Very shortly after I could see it, it disappeared. There was no flourish when it disappeared, and while I've considered that it was just a reflection on the glass, it didn't have the sort of glow around it that light reflecting on glass usually has. I also considered that it was a sort of shooting star, but again, there was no tail or glow around it. I reiterate that the light looked exactly how a commercial airliner would have looked like in the night sky through a windshield; its behavior was what was odd. The entire sight lasted less than two seconds.
March 9, 2017 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
LaFayette, IL
The object was pulsating in the western sky, it did not appear to move in any direction. The object would pulsat from orange in color to a bright white, it got larger in size the brighter it got. In approximately 5 minutes of seeing the object, it went from a bright white to blue in color and disappeared.
March 5, 2017 · 5:10 AM · CIRCLE
Wheeling, IL
After pulling an all nighter, on march fifth, 2017, at 5 in the morning, my friend, his little brother and I had decided to go for a walk to a nearby park. While on the asphalt path leading up to the park, we saw an orange colored glowing circle shoot up. We had immediately assumed that it was a flare, and contemplated calling the police in case someone was lost in a forest, but the direction it was coming from was by a more populated area of our city. The glow seemed to get bigger, then smaller. We stood there, watching it out of curiosity. Then, it started moving. My friend and I started recording with our phones, and then began running home. It seemed to come a little bit towards us, then, my phone shut down while on 15%, which it had never done before or after. By the time my phone finally turned on again, the UFO was to far away to be visible on my camera. But my friend still had his footage. We woke up his father and told him about what happened, but re! alized we couldn't show him the footage do to language the three of us used in shock. But we still had the footage. I told my dad about the experience and he told me I needed to "get some sleep". We talked about it the next day, but primarily focused on other things since then. One day, a month and a half later, I learned that my friend's phone had suddenly stopped working. I found this strange, especially because it was only a year and a half old. Since then, I didn't think much of it, until today, when I decided to share my experience with the world. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 26, 2017 · 6:00 PM · FLASH
Carpentersville, IL
Saw a flash while watching the north east part of the sky, next thing I see is a stationary blinking light in the same location after the flasg 4 times, I call my wife outside she saw two more blinks and that was it. Total time was less than 15 minutes.
February 25, 2017 · 11:27 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
Blue light flew across the sky on the highway. It was a blue light with a line in between.
February 20, 2017 · 8:11 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
According to my Iphone, the location of the video begins at Coyote Run Golf Course, before my landing at Midway International Airport. There is no sound in the video and this may be because my headphones were plugged in at the time because I was watching a downloaded television series. Although I don't know if that is the reason, I beleive it to be that it was the result of my faulty headphone microphone. My friend, who I told the entire experience to wanted to see the video but I couldn't send the video because it was to big to send, so he insisted on me posting it on YouTube which I did, in case anyone had any questions about my video who wasn't my friend I put all the basic information in the description. I do not have any explanation for the aircraft I saw, this was a UFO because this wasn't my first sighting, I had another sighting down the street from my own home, (26037 Whispering Woods Circle). I don't know if they are connected to me in some way or if it is simply an improbable coincidence. I ask that you respond because I too research and soon investigate UFOs and other paranormal and supernatural phenomena, I am no fraud I simply think that I should report this because I believe that my story along with everyone else's have a right to be heard. (( We first posted this report on March 10, 2017, but we did so, without having spoken with the witness. We have attempted to reach him via telephone, but have not been successful yet in speaking with him. We are uncertain as to whether the report is a serious account of a genuine sighting, or whether it might be an attempt to submit a hoaxed report. The duration of the sighting that was indicated by the witness makes us doubly suspicious. Also, when we first posted the report, we inadvertently overlooked the fact that the witness had included his name in the report, which we now have deleted. The oversight was our fault, a result of our dealing with a daunting workload, at the time. PD))