The catalog
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
April 30, 2023 · 3:40 AM · LIGHT
Downers Grove, IL
3:40 am, looking west northwest notice intermittent bright white on object at aporoximately 10,000 ft altitude ( we constantly get a lot of Ohare airport traffic overhead here in the Chicagoland area and become a pretty good judge of plane altitudes having seen them in all phases of approach and take off all my life and have flown extensively myself to Europe and Asia and Pacific) moving from west to east in a path that would've taken it right over the south portion of Ohare airport field. Silent with intermittent on/off bright white light that would move from side to side of object during off period. No port or starboard red or green lights, no under belly red light either. I could not discern a shape only intetmittent foreward facing very bright intermittent White light shifting from side side as it moved across the sky in about one minute or less time. If it was military it had no red or green lights but was being obvious about its presence - strange that it was not constant white light but instead on/off ftom side to side.
April 27, 2023 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Woodstock, IL
Hovering no sound
April 26, 2023 · 12:37 AM · CIRCLE
Chicago, IL
Driving on the I-55 towards Chicago near bolingbrook, looked to the right and saw the attached image.
April 24, 2023 · 8:23 PM · TRIANGLE
Belvidere, IL
Aircraft larger than a plane suspended in the air. It had lights on it like a plane, but was just hovering. It was triangular in shape and slate colored. We were headed East bound on State Street when we saw the aircraft hovering on the south side of the street. No noise, no movement. We drove up to the nearby dog park to turn around to get video/pictures. There are trees in between the dog park and conservation area so as we were headed down the gravel drive to turn around the craft became out of sight. We turned around, came back out, turned West onto State street and the aircraft was gone without a sound or any sign that it took off.
April 22, 2023 · 2:34 AM · FORMATION
seneca, IL
I was driving on route 6 to Seneca Illinois early in the morning, 2:34 AM, as I came around a turn I noticed the sky to my left was lit bright. I could immediately see bright lights flashing and rotating out in the corn field approx. .5 mile from the road. Instantly this terrified me. I could see the object, large in nature was rising above the tree line in the field. It was huge, about the size of a 2 story house. It appeared to be silent, but the lights were very bright.
April 17, 2023 · 9:08 PM · DISK
IdentifiedHighland, IL
The craft appeared hazy like in upper right and then left hand corner. The two ships seemed to follow it from right to left and look as though there are entering back into the craft on the last picture. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]
April 16, 2023 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Mendota, IL
As I was heading North on I-39 on my way home from picking up my daughter from Nashville TN. This is a trip i have made numerous times and was very familiar with. I had set up check points along the way to determine how much more time I had left but something was strange that night, just ahead of us in the path of travel was a very bright light. At first, I thought I was just making better time than I thought because it would have been the next overpass in which all the exits have Street lighting, but as I go closer and closer, I noticed where I was and it's no way that its overpass lighting. At that time, I looked to my daughter and asked her if she sees the same light and her response was "yea Dad, I see it. What is it?" My response was I have no clue. So, I kept moving towards it. As we got directly under the light, which was still bright, I tried to look up out the windshield to see what it was. I couldn't see nothing but the light but as soon as I passed thru and looked in the review the light was gone. Not knowing what it was or what had happened I just told Arial something that wouldn't scare her so I brushed it off like must have been a helicopter or something searching for something. I also couldn't believe what I witnessed. So, the next day I pulled out my laptop and began to look into if anyone else had reported anything around that area. Nothing came up but I noticed a dad and his daughters had experienced something similar in WI. I looked at the video the dad had posted and noticed it was something very close to what we and experience. I kind of freaked me out so I decided to keep it to myself because I don't want to come off as crazy or have people thinking such about me, but even before that experience I have seen strange things but nothing to that extreme. Even up to today it seems like I know or can predict things that has not happened yet. My dreams are more vivid with some predicting something that will happen the next day. It's like if I remember something about a dream I had, as I move around the next day something will relate to the dream. I'm at the point that I feel I want to talk to someone about it but really don't know who or how to explain without someone being Judgmental so, this is me reaching out and letting my experience out.
April 13, 2023 · 12:00 AM · DIAMOND
Plainfield, IL
There are about 10 objects in the sky at varying distances away. Some as far as to appear like a star, then some close enough to see as though it were a plane. All of these objects are flashing white, red, and blue lights. When one flew overhead, is was close enough to see that it appeared at first to look like a plane but then possibly a diamond shape. The front was flashing white almost as if the shape of a unicorn horn. Then one side flashed blue light and the other side flashed red light. Some of the objects appear to hover stationary while other fly away. However, when one flys away, another will appear, keeping about 10 in sight consistently. They also appear to ascend quite quickly as if jumping up stairs to the sky.
April 12, 2023 · 9:42 PM · LIGHT
Burbank, IL
A really bright circle in the sky not moving or doing anything its just floating there like a ufo
April 12, 2023 · 9:22 PM · UNKNOWN
Rockford, IL
When my daughter(who was 4 years old at the time) and I got out of the car, I started to get the clothes out to take them inside the laundromat. My daughter yelled "look mommy a shooting star", and I looked up at the sky to see what she was talking about. Once I started looking at what she thought was a star, indeed it was shooting up like a shooting star, but then it just stopped moving and started having this green glow pulsating around it. I instantly took my phone out and started recording. I recorded for about 2-3mins, and during this time the object had changed colors, did circles in the sky, and it would go back and forth from a very bright light to a very dark spot in the sky. It even changed shapes while it was flying(circle object to a long rectangular object then back to a circle).
April 9, 2023 · 5:05 PM · CUBE
Clarendon Hills, IL
I saw an object floating low in the sky facing North off the end of the I-83 off ramp on 55th St in Clarendon Hills, Illinois. It had 3 or 4 square or rectangular mirror sides and looked like it might have been rotating slowly. I was driving and saw it for about 2 minutes and took my eyes off to drive. When I looked again, I didn’t find it.
April 4, 2023 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Grand Chain, IL
I have seen these every night since April 4th 100s every night until now.
March 20, 2023 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Beach Park, IL
My friends and I were celebrating a birthday, august 3rd. We were hanging out in the garage and the yard until the late hours of the night. It was dark, there were street lights lit and some house lights in the neighborhood also turned on. At some point we noticed a white light coming from the beach over Lake Michigan. It appeared to be a plane at first, but this light was extra bright and growing larger as it approached. The light moved over the houses a little to the left of us looking towards to the lake. It was moving slowly and had no sound, it was silent. It didn’t stop and there was no shape, and no other blinking lights or anything. Just a ball of light. It pushed off diagonally and kept moving in a diagonal motion. It didn’t spin, it didn’t turn, it just went diagonally. Until it disappeared.
March 5, 2023 · 12:43 AM · CIRCLE
Springfield, IL
Circle object dimly reflecting light from the city moving west-southwest in a straight line. It disappeared from view as it got close to the horizon. It made absolutely no sound, appeared to be around the size of a medium sized airplane, and was moving much faster than the speed of normal commercial air traffic. I was in the US Navy, I've seen all kinds of aircraft, and I've travelled all over the world, but I have never seen something like this, much less move at that speed and make no sound at all.
March 1, 2023 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Crystal lake, IL
It was 2 bright lights equal distance from each other. There was no connection between the 2 that could be seen. They were always parallel to each other no matter what angle you viewed them from. Even when 90° to it's sides. It flow over three oaks lake and down Randal. It almost looked like a pair of eyes looking back at you. Like one of those painting that eyes follow you. It was always parallel to us, never angled. Jupiter and Venus
March 1, 2023 · 7:30 PM · OVAL
Glenview, IL
Jet-black (actually the shape was only visible as blackness against the lighted night clouds). Also looked at it in binocular - same. 2 lights at the sides of it. Very high and distant, but bright. Because of the distance me and my husband concluded that the craft is very large. The craft did not move horizontally but seem to lower itself somewhat and go up somewhat. Otherwise it hovered without any noise or any visible propulsion mechanism. Jupiter and Venus
March 1, 2023 · 6:25 PM · LIGHT
glenview, IL
I was letting out my dogs and I saw an alignment of 2 bright lights in straight formation Jupiter and Venus
February 21, 2023 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Bloomington, IL
I came out to my car after shopping and noticed the alignment of the moon, Venus and Jupiter. I took a picture with my cell phone, got in my car and left to run more errands. When I reviewed the picture afterwards, I noticed an object in the picture that I didn't see in the sky at the time I took the picture. The image appears blurry so it's difficult to discern the exact shape. When zooming in on the image, it appears to have a solid body with illuminated sections (lights?) and L-shaped mechanical parts.
February 20, 2023 · 8:35 PM · CROSS
Troy, IL
We were in our backyard and saw a large bow shaped glowing shock wave in the night sky moving from west to east. I quickly grabbed my phone and took a picture. When we exposed the photo we found multi items in the sky, not seen by our naked eyes. 10 min later a large grouping of light colored objects, what appeared to look like geese (but way to far up) moving through the sky, flying from north west towards the same flight path and also disappearing.
February 13, 2023 · 7:56 PM · CIRCLE
Norridge, IL
Me my girlfriend where standing outside talking and i seen something circle moving through the sky i said hey look at the they seen it and where like what is that i tried to make sense of it because i myself didnt believe what i seen it was pretty high near the clouds and moving super fast maybe as fast as the planes in the sky but it didnt make any noise
February 13, 2023 · 7:02 PM · OTHER
Glenview, IL
See above an picture. I called hotline and the person I spoke to requested that I send the pictures. Starlink satellites
February 13, 2023 · 5:59 PM · CHANGING
Mahomet, IL
I saw two objects in the sky on 2/13/2023 at 5:59p.m. I took pictures and video at 5:59 around 6:00 pm and at 8:00pm. These were hexagon shaped and had some type of light and poles or beam coming from all sides. The first one was closer to the ground and the second one was diagonal to the left above the first one. What I saw with my eyes are not the same as what my camera picked up. On film they look circular at some points or like dots. They do change shape. When I video recorded the object it moved all over the sky. You can see this in the video. My camera never moved but the object did. The 2nd object projected light and then the 1st one would move and vice versa. The sun was setting and both objects looked like a dark silver black color. I’m looking at the sky to the south of me. Not only did these objects move but they would hover in place for a half hour or more at a time. They could move up and down within a second and be back to there original position in a blink of my eye. The objects also would pulsate or change shape kinda like when a firework goes off in the sky. This is in the video. I was waiting to hear a noise or sounds but there were none. I did hear dogs in my neighborhood whimpering but other than that complete silence. It did look like the object above the first one emitted a light. This light was to the other object not to the ground. These objects had to be huge. Compared to the moon it was at least half that size or more. I’ve tried multiple times to upload the videos but it’s not working.
February 13, 2023 · 5:30 PM · FIREBALL
Winnetka, IL
Looked like a fireball stationary or slowly falling from the sky near O’Hare. Saw a commercial plane flying north out of ORD ahead of object. Object looked either stationary or slowly descending. Fireball-like with a tail. Moments later another commercial plane passed the object northbound. When I zoomed in on my camera, a distinct jet trail moved away from object in the southwest direction. I took pictures while waiting for the traffic light to change. My total view time was around 4 minutes, then continued home east down willow road. Contrail
February 12, 2023 · 8:06 PM · SPHERE
Effingham, IL
I walked outside and looked up and saw 2 bright orange spheres in the sky over my neighbors house. I stood there for about 8 seconds questioning what I was really seeing. They were very bright and moving really quickly towards the northeast. I yelled for my girlfriend to come outside to check out what I was looking at. When she arrived outside one of the spheres blinked and disappeared the other one did the same about 3 seconds after the first one disappeared. There were multiple aircraft in the sky and none of them were traveling at the speed that these orange spheres were traveling. There was zero noise from these 2 objects. They were moving at least 10 times faster than the commercial planes in the sky. They were flying fairly close to each other but the distance is difficult to determine about how high and close together they were.