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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
September 20, 2016 · 4:00 AM · DISK
Brookfield, IL
It was towards Midway airport. This was not a plane. I've worked at O'hare airport for over 10 years, so I'm familiar with airplanes. I took a picture with my cellphone. It was far away. However, I knew if I could get it, I could crop the picture. Then, I could see it better. And, I got it.
September 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Oswego, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 18, 2016 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Danforth, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 11, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
St. Charles, IL
No blinking lights like an airplane just solid light.
September 7, 2016 · 7:45 AM · LIGHT
Stonefort, IL
3 orange lights forming a triangle 10 degrees south and 30 degrees in elevation. They formed 7 minutes before twilight. and moved with the stars to the west till below the horizon. These lights have formed the last 30 days at the same place and did the same movement. They were formed always in the same place in the horizon so as the days changed the are near different stars . between the Orange lights the light from the stars are blocked as they move across the sky .
September 7, 2016 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Oak Forest, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 6, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Peoria, IL
It all statted the first night with the kinda crappy videos i got Of what appeared to be a rotating light so much so that it was a perfect circle. Luming from orange to red. It was very far off but still big enough to tell it was rather large. It hung in the sky for almost an hour before dissapearing off intonthe sky. The second night 9/6/16 Walking outside at work at 10pm to do trash with a manager looking up to see the same circular light hanging in the sky in the same area but definitely a lot higher up, we looked at it for awhile and went to the dumpster, while waking back we could see it on the other side of the sky hanging there miles from where it was. It had to have moved in the blink of your eye to have been able to get from where it was. Once we rounded the corner of our building we noticed a larger solid red light moving in the direction of the circular light. And then a c130 flew right over top of our building kinda gliding to the right of where ! the lights were. It struck me as weird to see the c130 fly over ive never seen them take that path before. After watching the lights get closer and kinda dissapearing further up i had gone back into work. Witness provides no contact information. PD
September 5, 2016 · 4:00 AM · OTHER
Orland Park, IL
I woke up in the morning with three equally symmetrical dots on my left upper wrist. I am not aware of any insects in our room or bed. I do see a lot of activity around our house in the sky. I have seen this strange neon green like shoot down about 5 times now. Looks like nickelodean slime green color. I was apart of the Tinley lights and the phase sighting. I am a believer, but as much as I want to believe, I really like hard evidence. Source of report submits an accompanying photo, which indicates three small wounds on his arm. Photo is posted to the NUFORC homepage. PD
September 4, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Elgin, IL
Just after 9:00pm Central time last night (Sept 4), my husband and I saw 3 glowing orange fireball-like objects moving swiftly across the night sky from the south/southeast to the north/northwest. They were about 30 seconds apart, about 40 degrees above the horizon, followed the same path and did not make a sound. We are absolutely certain they were not commercial airliners, as there were no blinking wingtip or tail lights or jet engine noise. Furthermore, a short time after seeing the three fireball objects, two commercial airliners were seen and heard passing overhead .... going from north to south (the opposite direction of the fireball objects). A short time later, two move fireball-like objects were seen, again with no blinking lights or jet engine sound. Again, they were about 30 seconds apart and traveling in a southern to northern path.
September 4, 2016 · 3:40 AM · LIGHT
Northbrook, IL
On September 4th at approximately 3:40am I was driving east on Illinois 68 (Dundee Rd). I was just west of and approaching the local post office (60062) and approximately 0.5 miles west of Illinois 43 (Waukegan Rd.} I noted, and was literally startled/frightened as a bright white light appeared from behind on the driver’s side of the car {north}. The light appeared to be traveling east with a slight northern pitch. It seemed to be coming from a higher altitude to a lower altitude with I would say a 5-degree angle with a slight arc rather than straight line of descent as it came into and disappeared from my view over the tree tops of the Somme Prairie Nature Preserve. The sighting lasted 2-3 seconds at most. I heard no sound, an am unable to accurately describe the distance the light was from myself or the speed it was traveling. The object had no aura and left no trail nor had a trail of light such that a rocket would have. I am male, age 49, and a Registered Nurse. I was returning home from a friends on this early morning.
September 3, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Chicago (Wood Dale), IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 2, 2016 · 7:23 PM · TRIANGLE
Naperville, IL
Three possibly four travelling in formation. White lights. I have photos of the incident.
September 2, 2016 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Stickney, IL
A white Orb was traveling East to West and in a downward projection. Looked like a large meteor, but without a tail. Fairly low in the sky. It was bright but then it disappeared, almost like they turned the lights off.
August 30, 2016 · 11:00 AM · CIGAR
West Chicago, IL
I was driving on Illinois Route 59 in west Chicago, Illinois. I looked up and saw a silver cigar type craft. The sun hit it and I saw the reflection. I thought it was a united airlines jet, as the color was spot on match. But within a few seconds it just vanished! Blue sky no clouds. The craft was about 6-8000 feet. I watch southwest on final approach from Joliet to Midway airport. 13 years in law enforcement I've never seen a jet just disappear. I'm at a loss for words
August 26, 2016 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Macomb, IL
It was triangular in shape it looked like several spheres making connected making up the triangle. It had a weird glow to it, it was flying pretty low and almost blended in with the orange colored sky at sunset except you could tell it was made of a reflective metal. It was totally silent it was heading south and after it flew over it disappeared very quickly or blended in very well. There appeared to be an aura or haze around it as well.
August 25, 2016 · 2:00 PM
Cicero, IL
Yesterday afternoon at approximately 2:00pm my 7 year old son noticed a beam of light that appeared to be coming from the sky into our pool. He came and got me to watch what he was watching on our surveillance camera and told me that "a light was taking our water out of the pool!" And that's exactly what it looked like!! I don't know what it was, I've never seen anything like it before! My cameras do record so I have it saved.
August 24, 2016 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Rantoul, IL
I noticed a flying circular object (my mother was driving North from Champaign) in the air around 400 feet in the air with red and white flashing lights that flashed constantly, and very fast. The object seemed to hover in the same area, but did move forwards and backwards. Towards the South there was a storm coming up from the South and it was producing lots of lightening. Much of the lightening was striking the ground. I lost sight of the object after about 30 minutes. It looked as if it went to the south.
August 24, 2016 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Rantoul, IL
On the evening of August 24, 2016, I was driving to Rantoul, IL, from Thomasboro, IL, along Route 45 North approximately 8:15 pm Central time, or so. North of me a couple of miles ahead, I saw what looked like a bright star but it was too early for stars to be that bright in the north. The sun had set, but the sky was still bright in the west. As I got closer, I noticed that the light wasn't moving in any direction. It wasn't blinking like a tower or a plane is required to do because of air traffic. Then I saw that it was actually two lights right next to each other. I passed it at the intersection of Rt. 45 and Wheat Ave. There was a line of trees for a distance before I got to that intersection and I struggled to see the lights until I passed the trees almost at the intersection. The lights were at least 300-400 feet up in the air by my best estimate. About as high as a tall tower, or wind turbine maybe higher, but not much. They were several feet apart from each other. My windows were down, I was driving about 40 mph and there was no wind. It was dead calm other than the wind from my driving and I heard nothing. No engine noise, no rotor thumping. And the lights were not moving, nor was there anything blinking. I drove back by the same spot at 8:45-8:50 pm and the lights were gone. When I got home, I wrote up what I saw and posted on Facebook and a friend of mine said her son saw the same thing about 8:45 as they were also driving north. He said the lights suddenly ‘took off’ were the words he used, towards Champaign, IL to the south. When I asked how fast, she said it was pretty quick, because he lost track of it quickly.
August 20, 2016 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Chicago, IL
((ADDENDUM FROM SOURCE OF REPORT)) Hi Peter, Not many clouds in the sky as it was pretty clear on 8/20/16 in Chicago. The altitude of the few clouds were at least twice that of the ufo's. I don't know how to triangulate altitude but I do know from just checking google images of pictures from 1000' altitude that that is really close to the height (perhaps less and 800' is probably closer). Our location seeing this was Hermosa Park. If you do a quick google or view of the park we were in the field between the baseball field and the playground. The formation came from the baseball field to the playground which is from West to East (Lake Michigan is due East). I just wish like a computer my memory from this event could be accessed so you could see what I saw.. I did some research after seeing this (after checking to see if I could find other reports about this particular incident) and found this to be the closest thing to what I saw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc2ppoJIexY. The only difference was my vantage point. We were probably 3 times closer than his view, right underneath the flight pattern. Crazy thing to me was after researching the internet was seeing so many reports of similar sightings. I would've just brushed these people away myself before this happened as I'm a see it to believe it kind of person but I can tell you I'm a believer now! I really not sure how to contact the local press about something like this but myself or my wife are not afraid to say what we saw. We are very straightforward people with no agenda so if I'm contacted I will talk but I'm probably not going to seek out any press myself. I'm willing to continue any dialog about this Peter, as I'm still so curious as to what this was?! Let me know any thoughts or if you have a similar report from others. This happened in Chicago on a Saturday night in the summer in a busy area!!! Someone saw something that we did I can tell you that. Sincerely, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
August 20, 2016 · 8:22 PM · FIREBALL
Hazel Crest, IL
10-12 yellow/orange fireballs, slowly moving across the sky in formations. Traveling west to east in the sky. No sound present. One fireball slowed down to wait for others to catch up and moved in a lateral direction. As the fireballs moved east, they began to disappear. Caught on cellphone video.
August 15, 2016 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Batavia, IL
When exiting the I88 tollway while westbound at Orchard Road, to my left I saw a sphere that looked like a wet garbage hovering... When I could finally stop my car on the side of the road to take a picture, it was gone… Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 13, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
Bourbonnais, IL
Saw 10-12 yellow /orange globes traveling from north to south, horizontally in eastern sky. No sound. Seemed to be going slow, but disappeared quickly when in the southern atmosphere. Very different than anything I've ever seen in my years. High altitude. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 10, 2016 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Oak Lawn, IL
I saw a very bright white light swirl for 1 second in a half of a U motion. It got bright than dimmed down and disappeared. I was looking toward the south the sky. It happened at 11:20PM like under 15 to 10 minutes ago. It barely moved. I messed up the month when reporting it, so I am submitting this report. It didn't happened July 10th 2016; It just happened now today August 10th, 2016. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 6, 2016 · 8:50 PM · FIREBALL
New Lenox, IL
I was outside watering flowers after returning from dinner and a show and observed 3 fireball objects passing in a southwesterly direction. I called my husband to witness and he took pictures of several more passing overhead. We are retired professionals in good mental health. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD