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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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July 14, 2015 · 11:10 PM · LIGHT
Oak Lawn, IL
This happened to me July 14, 2015, at 11:10 P.M.. I went outside wondering if my friend still wanted to go get a beer at the bar or not. I was getting ready to text him to see what was going on and if he was still planning on going. I looked around at the clear sky and the way the stars looked so beautiful tonight that was very unusual lately until that day a few days ago. I then noticed one star brightening up. I thought that might be them again but ther're not identical this time. I tried to get my camera on my cellphone ready but I knew it was too late when the one bright star was dimming down as a tiny blinking light on a plane was coming towards it. Then both stars disappeared simultaneously. They never came back as clouds covering the entire sky were moving in towards that area at 11:39 P.M. Someone else told me they and others saw something simular on July 3rd at night. This person told me this happened on July 6th in Hodgkins, Illinois. My other reports were both stars were brightening identically and disappearing simultaneously. I reported this phenomenon on October 8, 2014 at 5:55 A.M. and January 14, 2015, at 5:45 A.M.. I found one report that matches my report on this site that was on October 9, 2015, in Abingdon, Virginia. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 12, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Machesney Park, IL
My fiance and I both witnessed it! It was nothing I have ever seen in my life? What did we see tonight, because there is nothing in the planet earth that's that big it looked like it went into light speed like in star wars it was gone at the blink of an eye!
July 12, 2015 · 10:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Highwood, IL
Color red turn orange, and changed white. Sky clear and temperature 70 f . Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
July 10, 2015 · 12:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Springfield, IL
I was at the drive-in movies. Next to Knights action park in Springfield IL. I was watching the new "Terminator" movie, and behind the screen, nowhere close to being on the screen, I saw a light show up out of no where. Now, I at first thought it could be a shooting star or satellite dish (sic. Satellite), but before it disappeared behind the screen out of view, it curved dramatically. At least 90 degrees and as far as I know. Shooting stars and satellite dishes (sic. Satellite) cannot make a turn that big. I was sitting in the front row next to my mom and dad, though neither of them saw it. But there were a lot more people there watching the movie, so I'm sure someone saw it too. Another thing was that it showed up out of no where then because the screen was in the way I don't know where it went. It was a glowing white in color. I'm 16 years old and I have seen shooting stars before. This was nothing like one. And in my opinion I believe there is life else where. I'd just never thought I would be reporting something like this. I don't know how to any more explain what I saw. I am not positive the exact time but it was around 12:30 to 1 am.
July 9, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Park Ridge, IL
I was taking a walk down a busy street heading northwest, when I saw aprox 15 orange lights in the sky to the north. At first they were in a straight line, so I thought they might be planes lining up to land at OHare airport. I've lived near the airport my entire life, and quickly realized this was not the case. The color of the light as not right and the quickly left the in line formation and became jumbled in a random pattern. 5 of the lights then seemed to form a circle, before the rest of them disappeared one by one until there was only one left in the sky for about 30 more seconds and it too disappeared. I have never made a claim like this before and am hoping someone else saw this. It would be hard to believe that with the brightness, the number of objects, and the residential area, this happened in that no one else did.
July 5, 2015 · 11:15 PM · OVAL
Chicago, IL
Yesterday, July 4, 2015, my 2 daughters and I reported on this site seeing 3 reddish orange orb shaped object appear in night sky around 9:00 pm going south to north. Tonight, July 5th, 2015, I and my daughter went back out to see if we’d see another sighting of said object, and around 9:15 pm, we spotted it, reddish orange as before, going this time east to north, same reflective coloring, same straight mechanical movement, as bright as a star. This time, using my telephoto lens, I took several photos of it. Once again, it travelled north and we observed it as far as we possibly could before it vanished. Tonight we only observed one orb
July 5, 2015 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Springfield, IL
It was a red orb with a blue outline. It Harvard ((sic. Hovered)) for a little while it moved left it moved right then just kind of went down slow beyond the trees. It had to be 5 miles away at least. My dog was going nuts trying to run away so I took her inside when I ran back outside I never saw it again.
July 4, 2015 · 11:54 PM · LIGHT
Godfrey, IL
There were 7 orange lights flying north in the sky, no sound and then they just disappeared, like a candle being blown out.
July 4, 2015 · 10:27 PM · UNKNOWN
Oak Lawn, IL
There was something that looked slightly invisible that I could see moving in space fast. It then broke into two, and then both did wide turns on opposite sides at the same time. They both faded away at the same time too. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Chicago, IL
Celebrating 4th of july we have spoted orange lights above sky line of Chicago right above fire works. We were joking that there were helicopters and the pilots are not very smart flyling between fireforks. Then I have spotted 2 orange lights flighing in formation and disapperaring alwaysg in the same place (possibly because of smoke from fireworks). Then it hit me that chicago was No Fly Zone by FAA on July 4th. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:54 PM · CIRCLE
Justice, IL
At 21:54 I sighted a red ball in the south at about 60 degrees up, slowly moving to the southwest. I called my girlfriend to come outside. By the time she came out she saw it fading away. I looked to the left and pointed out a second fireball coming toward us from the southeast. My girlfriend said it stopped for a couple of seconds and continued moving northwest. We saw it about 30 seconds before it faded out or turned out its lights. At 22:54, I went outside to see If I could see more. Within a minute, I saw another orange/reddish ball coming towards me from the south. I immediately called my girlfriend back out. We both were standing on my porch watching it slowly moving toward the north. It started to be blocked by my tree, so I went down my steps and kept backing up because I didn't want to lose sight of it. It started to move towards the East and it came right over me. My girlfriend yelled and said there was another one coming towards us. I told her I didn't want to take my eyes off the one that was moving East. Then she said there's 2 more. I looked at her and she was pointing at two that were directly in the west at a decent distance. I looked back up at mine and watched it fade away. The second one went directly north and faded away. The two out west, the one on the left was a little higher than the one on the right, faded into the distance. The duration for the 22:54 sighting was about 4 to 5 minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Ottawa, IL
For sixty seconds in the northern sky five balls of light pulmeted towards the earth. Make a three hundred and sixty degree free fall turn, then broke apart shooting downword, then disappearing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Machesney Park, IL
It was 930 pm on the fourth of July, we were watching fireworks on friends deck when the orange triangular object seem to float from west to east along latham road near forest hills rd. it was large and stood out from area display of fireworks show. It was definitely hovering, no sound, and we agreed it seemed it was watching the event. It then moved slightly east then decended straight up -slowly until it was out of sight. I have been a pilot, flown in helicopters and have seen drones, this was none of these as we tracked it with binoculars.
July 4, 2015 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Crystal Lake, IL
We have corrected the date above. PD
July 4, 2015 · 8:55 PM · FIREBALL
Chicago, IL
Me and my friends were popping fireworks. We do often joke that we are contacting UFO's with the lights. My friend was recording, when a fiery reddish-orange light went floating by. we tried to dismiss it as a flare, but it was in the air way to long, and it moved a large distance. We then said maybe it was a plane. But a plane flew exactly next to it. It could have been a plane, especially by comparison. My friends dismissed it still, but, i was still bothered by it. I think i have proof, but i haven't reviewed the video yet. So i would prefer to get back to you. We spoke via telephone with the witness, who corrected the time. The sighting occurred during the evening. PD
July 3, 2015 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
North Aurora, IL
Okay, have never seen anything odd/ufo-like until tonight. I even got video because I’d been taking shots of the nearly full red moon. Was only doing that because I’d been taking pics of fireworks going off in the area and noticed the moon. Suddenly, I noticed this red/orange ball of light that was tracking across the sky sort of my direction and came from my line of sight to the moon. Thought at first it would just die out as being the end of a firework. Nope. It stayed steady at first in its travel, although it seemed to be spinning. I then thought maybe I’m seeing my first drone. But the more I watched it literally seemed like fire causing the light, and yet I didn’t think a lantern would travel like this. My eyes aren’t great, so I just filmed it come closer, not exactly going the same speed or evenly and then fly overhead past the overhang on my balcony… then I went back to taking pics of the moon. Maybe 2 minutes later (of course I had the camera put down by then), the sucker is back, traveling basically the exact same route. Only I didn’t see how it GOT there. Did not see it circle back around. I was only able to capture some of the 2nd sighting on video. Was curious to see what I’d filmed, so instantly downloaded it to the computer. Now, my camera takes excellent shots and the ones of the moon were a great example. It wasn’t that large in the sky and yet I’m able to get the craters, all the features (and oddly, some other lights near the moon which I also couldn’t explain because they changed frame to frame and I don’t think satellites move that fast). Anyway, the fireball was definitely fire inside. It appeared to be inside something and that something would rotate end over end and or sideways. I captured the texture of the outside and its freaking weird. The word ‘blob’ comes to mind, but there were kind of like puffy layers to it and I strongly believe the fire part only came out of one end, which had sort of a torn appearance. From the movement, no way was it a lantern or it would’ve caught fire and gone down quickly – certainly wouldn’t have returned either. From the video I feel like I saw something that belonged in the ocean, except it was fire-propelled and in the sky for anyone to see.
July 3, 2015 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Niles, IL
On the evening of July 3rd, 2015, around 9:50 PM, a friend and I had a sighted something that neither of us can explain. We went to watch the fireworks at the local high school in Niles, IL. We went to the 3rd story of a parking garage for a better view of the fireworks with a number of other patrons. We were about 300 yards away from the firework display, and randomly noticed 2 green lights with a single white flashing light on the object that we could not physically see outside of the light display. We had found it curious, as it seemed to literally be spectating the fireworks while hovering/sitting over the show. My friend and I actually went into debate as to whether it was a UFO or a helicopter. I originally put it off as a helicopter, because generally speaking, that's what sane people believe. It started to catch our attention more as the green lights both turned red. It was unlike any normal aircraft that we could think of. Obviously, since it was sitting over the fireworks, it could not be a plane. And usually the lights displayed on a helicopter stay consistent and do not change at random. What happened next is what truly makes me believe that we saw a UFO. It went from sitting in one place to my friend and I watching it dart across the sky directly east of where we were stationed. It quickly changed direction and again, changed color from green to red, and turned from left to right. Again, it changed to green as it looked to fly into the tree line about 5 miles away. I did record the event as soon as it started flying away because of how much it intrigued me. With that being said, I recorded a 29 second video of the occurrence. We have seen a number of planes tonight since the incident, and this object was going at a much quicker pace, and moved extremely quickly while changing direction unlike any flying object I have ever seen. In addition, even with the random increase of speed, you did not hear a single sound, which would be assumed by an object moving at that speed.
July 3, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Algonquin, IL
July 3rd, 2015, approx. 9:40PM CST to 10:00PM. Five separate orange lights appeared out of the eastern sky over Algonquin, Illinois. Though there were fireworks in the distance, this was different. The four objects took off one at a time, soundless, they climbed out of the eastern sky to an altitude, when they moved around a little before finding a position where they remained. The intensity of each light changed, getting brighter and then slowly dimming until extinguished. This took 3-5 minutes each. Too much energy would be required to launch, reach altitude and power a sufficiently bright light that could be seen maybe ½ mile away. Were they drones? After burn-out, there was no sign that they fell to earth. Local SWAT drones? DARPA? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 2, 2015 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Oswego, IL
I had just gotten home from seeing fireworks, pulled into my driveway and looked up into the sky to see a orangish yellowish glowing ball floating in the sky. At first I had brushed it off as a plane, but then I quickly realized it was not. It was not moving like plane as it was moving carefree and up/down swiftly across the sky. Very low too about 1000 ft or so. But when had passed me, I looked always for one second and another had appeared, same direction as the first one had came from. It was also moving around the same and looked the same. When I went to take a picture of it, it wouldn't show on my camera, then disappeared.
July 2, 2015 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Fulton, IL
Me and my brother were sitting watching tv and my brother said hey I think a helicopter is going to the hospital, so we both went out on or our deck to see if it was a helicopter, usually when they go to the hospital you can hear them, and they fly really low. Well the large orange light was perfectly silent, and kept going on its east to west pattern. We both thought it was strange as it made no noise whatsoever, and had no blinking lights like a helicopter would. To our amazement about 3 mins later another light followed. At this point we woke our dad up and told him hey like 3 ufos just flew over. He came outside so we could have another witness. About 6 orange lights flew over equally spaced about 3 mins apart. The last time it flew over it was a pair of 2 orange lights. They were spaced apart and maintained the same speed. I would guess about 1kmph to 1.5kmph. Each of the lights took the same flight path, and had the same speed. The lights did not get brighter or dimmer at any time. None of the lights had additional bliking lights that would mark it as a jet or airplane. If you have seen this as well or have any questions please feel free to email me
July 2, 2015 · 3:00 PM · OTHER
Palatine, IL
I was stopped at a red light in Palatine, Illinois, and looked up at the sky and saw this grayish square shaped structure flying through the air above. It was not an airplane. The way it moved through the clouds was something I have never seen before. I tried following it with my eyes but the red light changed to green and I had to keep moving with traffic. I knew I had just seen a UFO. I stopped off to get some gasoline for my car and as I was driving home I saw another grayish square shaped structure in the sky. I doubt if it was the same one. This one was seen in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.
June 30, 2015 · 10:49 PM · TRIANGLE
Pecatonica, IL
I had taken my daughters, ages 7 and 9, out in to the country to view Venus and Jupiter's alignment, free of light pollution. We were enjoying our viewing and my oldest daughter asked to go home to get her telescope. We did, and by the time we got back out there, the view was not quite as good as it had been. There were a lot of mosquitos, so I told the girls to get back in to the car. I had set the telescope on my trunk and was trying to get the moon in to focus. The telescope wasn't of high quality, and I got frustrated that I couldn't maintain decent focus. On our return trip home, my youngest said "OOH! Look at those planes!" I looked over and saw nothing. My oldest had similar results. The youngest said "Geeze, you guys, they are right there!". I leaned over and looked and there were not three planes, but one solid craft approaching us at a relatively slow pace on our right side. I pulled over and it passed us. Immediately, I rolled down my windows. It was dead silent outside, save for the sound of crickets and frogs. Both girls got kind of freaked out due to the fact that they are no strangers to air shows and know what jets sound like. The object proceeded in a direction that most likely would have led it out between Rochelle and Byron. It was at most, 700-1000 feet above us, but likely lower than that. There was a white round light on the front, but most peculiarly, the rear lights were actually oriented to point rearward and were white rectangles, fairly large in size. They didn't flash per-se, but did increase and decrease in intensity.
June 20, 2015 · 1:00 AM
Abingdon, IL
Saw a rectangular shaped object that had blinding lights. Was not moving through the skies very fast. Witness elects to provide no contact information. PD
June 19, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Lisle, IL
I was in the passenger seat of my dad's truck, at around 10:30 pm, 06/19/15. I was talking to my dad, and I saw 2 red orange lights above the tree horizon when I turned to look at him. The lights where near his head from my point of view. I was able to watch them for about a minute because I told him to stop a bit to see something. They stayed there for a bit but while I reached for my cellphone they disappeared.