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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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June 24, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Lombard, IL
My girlfriend and I were sitting at a Ted light at a busy intersection and while looking around I seen 3 green circle lights in the sky hovering there moving all together like a fleet and then by the time the light turned from red the 3 circles darted off towards the city.
June 24, 2016 · 12:20 AM · SPHERE
Carol Stream, IL
Forgive me if this seems crazy, but I saw something in the night sky I have never seen before. I am at work in the middle of the night and went outside to have a cup of coffee. We are a suburban area at 400 E north avenue in Carol Stream, Illinois. I looked to the sky star gazing as it is nice out and the sky is clear. I turned to the north and high in the sky I noticed what looked like a star, but it was moving around. I could not see a specific shape, it looked like a star to me, but it was not stationary. The object was moving very quickly and erratically. I looked at other stars in the area and no other star was moving and I saw some obvious planes as they had the flashing lights and moved in a constant direction. The object I observed moved like a balloon with air escaping or a kite on a string darting across the sky. I kept waiting for the object to move out of my vision, but it stayed in the same general area. The object moved in all directions and at times made big moves, darting to another area and at other times made smaller squiggly moves like a figure eight or a letter “S”. I called a maintenance friend of mine to verify what I was seeing and he saw the same thing I did. The object looked way too high in the sky to be an airplane, and did not move like an airplane. I am not sure what it was that I saw, but it was not normal. I am 56 years old and have never seen this kind of image and I grew up in the country where the sky is nearly always clear for gazing at night. Take it for what it is worth. I wish I knew what it was that I just witnessed. Thanks
June 18, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CHEVRON
South Barrington, IL
We were watching a fireworks display when I noticed a white line high above the fireworks. At first I thought it was an ember from the show. But it never burned out. It was moving slowly in the sky. Then it stopped. Shortly after it stopped, another line appeared in the sky, but this one had red lights. It also stopped, but began to go to the right across the sky at a quick pace and then it stopped. Then it moved back to the left and stopped. It was almost as if they were watching the fireworks display because when the show was over they left the area going toward the west. I focused mainly on the red one because of its color. It looked like a boomerang shape with a brighter center light. The other lights were also red, but dimmer. It made no sound and when it moved, it moved quickly. Because they could stand still in the sky, I knew they couldn't be airplanes. We were facing west. They seemed to appear out of nowhere but hung around for about 15 minutes. The red one moved around more than the white one did. They both did stop and remain in one place for a while. When the fireworks were over I saw the red one leave the area going west. I did not notice when the white one left. They were silent.
June 18, 2016 · 8:05 PM · CIRCLE
Chicago, IL
We were on our balcony looking East, when the UFO appeared. At first it looked a bit like a helicopter from the fron, but as it slowly turned South, we saw basically a round shape with 4 lights. It moved slowly (like a helicopter, too slow for a plane). I run to the roof deck of our high rise building and watched it there for about 15 minutes. It kept rising and did a slow arc Westbound over the city and across O'Hare airspace. I'm guessing at the end it was maybe 15km high and barely visible as it was just a dot until it disappeared into the clouds. This was not a plane, nor a helicopter nor a balloon. If anything it looked more like a drone but a giant one (the size of an airliner). Since it went straight through ORD airspace it must have been tracked by some radar. Its color was black.
June 6, 2016 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Naperville, IL
Saw 6 golden circular vehicles forming a large circle. I saw one more golden circular vehicle moving quickly toward the circle and flew through) it, and then all the golden circular vehicles continued to move along the sky. No noise was heard and definitely not an airplaine or helpicopter. Never saw anything like this ever before in my life.
June 6, 2016 · 8:38 AM · FIREBALL
Godfrey, IL
Possible meteor, we would guess. PD
June 5, 2016 · 9:15 PM · CIRCLE
Middletown, IL
At 9:15 last night my husband took our dog out and looked. The previous nights activity made him look up. He called me to the porch to look. At first, all I saw was the north star. Then I saw what he was talking about. Just to the left was a little hello/orange light moving fast and stopping then changing direction. As we watched, having our son to come out to watch too, more and more appeared. It turned out to be a smaller version of the previous night.
June 3, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Middletown, IL
At 10:15 last my family decides to go star gazing in the country. We were looking for constellations when we noticed two bright yellow/orange lights we thought were the visable planets last night the 4 little white dots showed up blinking.the the yellow big ones stared moving from side to side stopping and moving blinking. then the little ones start moving together twords one big yellow one. then all the sudden there were 3 big ones and white ones started showing up all over the sky...hundreds zig zagging and flying in v formations and strait lines moving all over the sky but only the white the yellow ones there were 4 by midnight swung in a Pendulum movement in one spit only moving really fast for a minute then stopping again.only 3 of the big ones moved off and on all night one big one stop streaking fast and dimmed and stayed in one place for the duration we were watching.its didn't start moving until about 1:30 am.the white ones flying formations all over ! and the sky were still doing it till I went to bed at 3 am I have neighbors a roommate a husband a 12 year old and a 7 year old who were so scared...me too...all saw it I thought I might be going crazy but everyone saw it.....amazing
June 3, 2016 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Algonquin, IL
My associate messaged me around 12:15 am, saying there was a UFO visible from his house so I came by around 12:25 at the latest and from then on saw the object which looked like the brightest star in the sky and was slowly making its way to the right, from our position it was moving south. It would hover and move randomly about within a small vicinity, up, down, left, righy, etc. But generally maintained the southern path. I headed home, got my brother and we followed it. It eventually around 4am settled just above the horizon west of Algonquin and dimmed as the night progressed until it dimmed out completely around 4 when dawn was beginning.
June 1, 2016 · 9:12 PM · LIGHT
New Lenox, IL
First thought it could be a meteor, but there was no tail. Way too fast for a plane or satellite. About the speed of a meteor, but no tail.
May 30, 2016 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Blue Island, IL
After the first one passed it disappeared. The 2nd object did not pass but all of a sudden disappeared.
May 29, 2016 · 10:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Canton, IL
They came from a northwest sky moving to the southeast. They had an orange-yellow glow. The wide side of the object was the leading edge (like they were moving sideways). The space between the two objects appeared to be 2 to 3 times their length. There was no sound and they moved at a medium rate of speed until they were out of sight.
May 29, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Braidwood, IL
I was on my deck; saw a super bright orange light high in the sky approaching, at a pretty fast speed, no sound. Ran and grabbed my high powered binoculars. Observed with binoculars the super bright orange light (which looked like a torch), emanating from the Center, base of the object, possibly within it. The light provided an outline of the object against the sky, looked either iridescent (reflection on metal?) or see through like a jelly fish. The object traveled West to East and was out of site in less than a minute. There was no time to take a picture and a picture would have only captured the super bright orange light. I am surprised that no one else saw/reported this.
May 29, 2016 · 3:30 PM · SPHERE
Plainfield, IL
Outside taking pics of clouds saw nothing with until looked at pics on cell phone shocked to see a gray sphere with white square specs, 2 other pics it was a blue sphere with square specs 1 pic it's purple white specs flew SW to SE.. have pics went back out and gone nothing. There was a plane in a shot this didn't look like a balloon or star or moon I take pics they are zoomed and identified so what was it?
May 28, 2016 · 4:40 AM · LIGHT
Oak Lawn, IL
I was outside out in front of the house in the morning smoking looking at the sky. On the left corner of my eye were no clouds are not in the sky I seen a white light blink once. I then was staring in the section of the sky and didn't see anything flying in the sky at all. Usually planes do come around time from time that have a constant blink white and red light. I am not seeing no plane at all for about 2 minutes. I'm still looking and in the same section all the sudden a red light blinked one time and still see no plane or both with still no clouds in that section of the sky. There was scattered clouds in other sections of the sky but nothing in the area that I seen this. I stared for a about a little bit longer but was maybe seeing a very dim lite star that was maybe in the area too. It was very breezey out and the weather felt pretty nice. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 28, 2016 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Glenview, IL
Eyewitness to separate objects within 10 minutes of each other. The first object was an extremely bright white light moving at moderate speed from Northwest to Southeast Direction across sky. The second object was a pulsing bright white light that moved very slowly from east to west. The light would post two extremely bright then dim to nothing then reappear slightly and repeated this process moving across the sky
May 21, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Orland Park, IL
9PM over Orland Park, Ilinois. We say a huge bright blue light. Bigger then anything else in the sky. Just hovering for about 40 seconds. As fast as we saw it, it completely disappeared. Never seen anything like it before in my life. Was never a believer in this sort of thing but cannot believe what we just witnessed. It had four blue lights on the bottom of it as it flew away. Never seen aircraft move like this before. Simply unreal.
May 19, 2016 · 10:30 AM · CIRCLE
Skokie, IL
No wings on this aircraft and no sound. It was saucer shaped. Flew south to north direction over Golf road, near Skokie Blvd. Then object shot straight up in sky at great velocity and disappeared.
May 15, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Carlinville, IL
The sight it was over was an area locals for years have reported similar lights, including reports of an airship and it's pilots landing in adjacent fields during the 1800's as reported by the local newspapers at the time.
May 14, 2016 · 10:45 PM · CIRCLE
Schaumburg, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 7, 2016 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Marion, IL
At approximately 10:30 pm, I stepped out into the backyard and observed a white light in the shape of an orb streak across the sky. I then saw that there were 3 more darting in and out of view through cloud cover. I went in the house and got my roommate and she too witnessed this event. The lights were extremely fast and would merge into a single body from time to time. They were visible while in the cloud but would almost disappear when they would move between the clouds. Yet, you could still see a faint trace as they moved in and out of the clouds. They disappeared completely when the clouds became few and far between.
May 6, 2016 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Buffalo Grove, IL
It was dark outside, no clouds and then all of a sudden as we were sitting in his my friend's backyard a flying object in the distance appeared. First, the immediate thought was a plane, but this object had multiple colors that a plane does not have. White, green, some blue, and some red. It was flying a lot lower than an airplane would. As we ran to the street for a better view, we saw this object had a circular shape and we were 100% sure. Listening closely, there was a noise coming from it (low whistling noise only heard when silent). Was moving very slowly and eventually we lost track of it, but not before getting a clear view of it being a complete circle shape which automatically eliminates the possibility of it being a plane.
May 6, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Round Lake, IL
I was just looking at the stars in my back yard on 05/06/16 at 21:00 Hrs. In Round Lake, IL, a suburb Northwest of Chicago. My yard is facing the West Sky. I saw what I thought was planet or bright star that was traveling from the south heading in a straight North to slight North West direction. The object was in my sky view for about 10 seconds. I thought it could be the Space Station. There was no flashing lights, just solid white. I could also see aircraft in the area and it was much larger then the planes. It was located at approximately a 90 degree angle up from my standing posistion in the West Sky. To reference the location, I checked sky map and when I point my tablet up it would be coming from the location of the Cancer Constellation as high up as the top star in this area. Also, M44 is about the same height up from my view. I checked space station info, and it's not going to be in the area until Sunday. I did not hear any sounds and I did not see it lose any altitude. I have seen meteors before coming down at an angle, this was not losing altitude it stayed in a straight line heading straight North to slight North West. I am not an expert but am I am a retired Police Officer and I have observed many things over the years at night. I have not seen a Planet sized object traveling very fast across the sky before. My contact information is included, Sincerely, ((initials deleted))
May 5, 2016 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR
Shelbyville, IL
I noticed what I thought to be a jet aircraft that was flying without a contrail. Then I realized that the object did not have wings. That made me look closer and wonder if I was seeing it clearly. Then I noticed a jet coming from the right flying with a contrail. I could see the wings on this jet. It appeared to be flying at cruising altitude. The UFO and the jet were in full view when the UFO intersected and flew directly below the jet, still with no wings and no contrail. After the intersection between the jet and the UFO, both became hidden by a cloud. The jet reappeared to the left of the cloud and the UFO never reappeared on the other side of the cloud. In order for this UFO to exactly intersect the jet at those speeds either has to be a huge coincidence or a controlled maneuver by the UFO. I would estimate that the UFO was approximately the same size as the jet. Also, it appeared to be extremely close to the jet.