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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 2, 2022 · 3:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Fairmount, IL
V or triangle shoes craft 3 lights one in front larger/brighter. Has seen shooting stars and satellites and airplanes while investigating cemetery. This was not any of those, changed directions on a dime, very quick shooting short distances before spinning again and going other directions moving erratically. It was directly south of the cemetery.
August 31, 2022 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Caledonia, IL
Driving on country roads. Plane close by. Thought it was a jet stream but it couldn't have been. Contrail
August 31, 2022 · 3:46 AM · CIRCLE
Naperville, IL
When I left out for work, at 3:30a, I noticed how clear the stars were. I’m not used to seeing stars so clearly since I lived in the city most of my life and light pollution doesn’t allow for it. I grabbed my cell phone to get a picture of the dipper. As soon as I was about to take a picture, I noticed that something up there was moving! And it was moving fast! At first I thought that it was a plane. Lights were blinking, as seen in the video but it was moving too fast to be a plane. L; and it seemed too high up to be one. Then it disappeared! Maybe I’m wrong but I could be right. Please advise.
August 27, 2022 · 9:01 PM · CYLINDER
Peoria, IL
A cylindrical object appeared in my north east facing window which attracted my attention because of its brightness and color and smooth motion. I went to look out the back door of my house and watch as it headed northwest briefly but it quickly faded and was lost to sight. It was unusual because of its shape and brightness and orange color, but also because it appeared to have two dangling legs that were bright and orange also. Not something I have seen before. It move quickly but not like a meteor more like the speed of the ISS when it flies over. It appeared bigger so I assume at a low altitude. It seemed to have some twinkling or movement to the light. It was traveling southeast to northwest. I have seen Chinese lanterns before. Could be a new and improved model but the whole thing seemed to be reflecting light? No center burning look. Just unusual and that is why I am reporting. No time to get a photo unfortunately. It would be nice to know if anyone else in the area saw it.
August 26, 2022 · 10:12 PM · SPHERE
Hillsboro, IL
The same dot of light has been in the sky around 10 pm or so at night. It is outside my back door looking left in the sky. It is a clearing I decided to film it tonight on my camera and I couldn't believe what I saw. It was like a sphere and it disappeared and went away again. I am not sure how to explain I have never saw anything like it before
August 26, 2022 · 2:09 PM · CIRCLE
Justice, IL
I watched it come towards my area and slowly went west from where I was sitting. As it got closer I noticed that it was continuously changing shape. It was a bright white circle shape at first. Then it was zig zagging constantly. It just kept moving and then I couldn’t see it anymore.
August 22, 2022 · 11:20 AM · OTHER
Just after Springfield Illinois, IL
Was driving north bound on interstate 55 in Illinois from Springfield toward Chicago i would say just after the road straightened out after Springfield and way before you start seening the windmills. To the left side of the road up in the sky at the puffy cloud level so if you drive this way you will see alot of puffy low clouds its at that level i seen it forward and watched it as far as i could as i drove looking left it was like it was watching the cars on the interstate it was the size of a car to maybe a suv and was black..i watched it hover and move left and right between 2 of the clouds it had a weird shape there is no way in hell it was a ballon or a drone and are there big birds at that high in sky..i dont think so it was watching the road is the feeling i got.if you drive this way you'll see the low puffy clouds it was toward to top of those clouds I watched it move back and forth 3 times I slowed to watch it..it was no plane..i should have got a picture but driving on that road can kill you if you stopi think it was using the cloud as cover but this is true with many ufos they will hide in clouds.to high to be a drone and it was not a government drone those are white or silver..never a camera when you need one..but I did have a straight feeling so it was black I almost thought I cloud see something on the under side.
August 18, 2022 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Benton, IL
While standing outside object was seen moving from the north to the south at a consistent speed. Object was an amber sphere or oval that seemed to glow. Object was observed moving from the north in a south-southwest direction.
August 17, 2022 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Benton, IL
Standing outside, orange orb appeared in sky traveling at consistent speed from the north to the south west at approx 10:30pm. One other witness other than myself saw the orb and can confirm sighting.
August 17, 2022 · 5:02 AM · LIGHT
St.Charles, IL
I was laying looking at the sky from my window when i see a extremely bright light with a blue grey aura travel over my house and slow down to a stop in the sky above the road in-front of my house. It appeared to be just hovering for a few seconds and then went back the way it came faster than before to a place i could no longer see. it had such a strong bad presence that gave me the chills and all I could do was freeze.
August 14, 2022 · 8:45 PM · OVAL
Murphysboro, IL
I was taking my dog out. After leaving the porch, my dog didn’t want to go into the yard and it took some coaxing to get him to go. As he was going I noticed a light above me & to my left. (We have a yard light so for me to notice the light from the sky is unusual plus it was cloudy out. ) I looked up and saw a bright “ball” of light moving low and horizontal across the sky. It was to my left /west and was moving north. After a few seconds, it disappeared. I never seen a falling star like that- so low & bright and moving horizontal. It looked like a ball moving across, with a trail of light behind it and possibly in front. It seemed like it was directly crossing over my yard and wasn’t that high in the air- maybe double the height of a tall tree .
August 12, 2022 · 9:54 PM · CYLINDER
Clinton, IL
Spiral light flashing in the sky then when I zoom in through my phone it’s a sphere and it’s spinning changing colors quickly it’s gorgeous
August 8, 2022 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Chicago, IL
See above and videos attached
August 8, 2022 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
From 10-11:30pm on 8/8/2022 we watched from our balcony on the 40th floor as 3 very large bright lights hovered back and forth in the sky. The lights were significantly bigger than airplanes and at first bright orange, we saw 3 then just 2. The lights turned a brighter white color, similar to that of a building white light or street lamp color. They moved elevation a lot, and disappeared for a few minutes and reappeared. The lights seemed to dip below the horizon and as soon as i looked away they were gone.
July 31, 2022 · 9:45 PM · OTHER
Burr Ridge, IL
I was taking pictures of my backyard. I do not recall seeing anything in the sky either before or after taking the picture. When I looked back at the picture a few minutes after taking it, I saw a strange red, black and white craft in the sky, and a strange green light below it, just above the tree line.
July 31, 2022 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Near Chicago Area, IL
Came home around 12:30am from a trip. Near 1am saw a very bright star shaped light hovering awkwardly below The cloud line looking north to slightly northwest from my house which would face toward Lake Michigan or Chicago area. I am very familiar with seeing planes in route to the airports, private aircraft, military planes and helicopters, low orbit satellites streaking in the sky and even have seen shooting stars and other things over time. This was definitely abnormal in how it was moving and how bright it was. My wife and I were looking at the object and I specifically noticed not only how bright it was, but how slowly and awkwardly it was dancing horizontally. It seemed to move a little, stop, then do it again a couple of times. It stopped, then seemed to make a half circle back in the opposite direction and slightly lift above a cloud. I could still see it momentarily and it was as if it lifted and disappeared. The cloud cover cleared relatively quick and there was no remnant of what we saw. It was pretty clear otherwise with many stars highly visible. We even saw what appeared to be a low orbit satellite running from west to east in the general area shortly after we saw the object.
July 30, 2022 · 3:35 PM · OVAL
Chenoa, IL
We (my wife and I... ) arrived at the Chenoa pool around 3:00pm. We were facing east floating on are back when an eagle caught our eye. while watching the eagle we noticed a super jumbo jet go over head going south east to north west, and being that it was partly cloudy the jet was very noticeable against the dark blue sky. It quickly disappeared behind a cloud. We noticed a smaller passenger jet flying at about the same altitude. Then at around 3:35pm an oval something ??? shot across the sky. It appeared to be moving 3 to 4 times faster than the jets we had seen just a few minutes before and twice (if not more) higher than the jets, and about a 3rd of the length of the commercial jets. Before we could yell to point it out to others in the pool it had gone behind the clouds.
July 30, 2022 · 9:20 AM · SPHERE
River Forest, IL
I was facing north/northwest when I saw one silver sphere moving across the sky. It was quite small. I then noticed another one far behind the first. They both moved slowly to the east. There wasn't any sound. They slowly moved until they disappeared .
July 29, 2022 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
I was sitting in my hot tub looking at the stars and tracking satellites and air traffic when a very bright ball of light about 4 times brighter than any other light in the sky moving from west to east. It appeared in the sky out of nowhere and then faded away after about 10 seconds of observation.
July 28, 2022 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Chicago, IL
Saw a bright light to the north west, seemed to be coming south east straight over ohare airport. It did not have any blinking marker lights light aircraft, made no sound, did not flicker like one of those lanterns that float away. This stayed the same brightness as it moved slowly across the sky. It was higher than the incoming aircraft but much to low and bright to be something in orbit. After reaching just about over our heads the object seemed to begin to slow and out of nowhere went straight up and disappeared. I checked flight trackers, satellite trackers everything I could think of and nothing was taking that flight path at that moment.
July 27, 2022 · 10:32 PM · LIGHT
Naperville, IL
Walking with dog in an open empty field, looking up at the stars. I fixated on one and it started to move slowly. I could tell it wasn’t the distance of a star now, had no idea how far away or large it was. It was a bright yellow/white circle. I noticed it was silent with no shadow of a craft behind it. I was thinking about taking my phone out at that point, but didn’t because I was afraid I’d miss something or it would go away. This was about 8-14 seconds. Then it slowly dimmed to a very faint pale yellow or white light then turned a faint red before it disappeared completely, that changing of brightness and color was about 5 seconds. The bus lot next to me has lights so that did make the pure night sky harder to see.
July 24, 2022 · 9:53 PM · SPHERE
Orland Park, IL
The orange orbs expanded and it was like flames but they became smaller again. I have a video of it but idk how to share it so I will share a screenshot from the video and I will zoom it in and put that.
July 21, 2022 · 10:41 PM · LIGHT
Homewood, IL
We are still looking at lights that appear to be autonomous. They look like stars however they are zig zagging over my house. They appear to be just as far away as stars. An airplane even flew by for comparison. One vanished while still in the middle of the sky. There's nothing anyone can do about it, but they're definitely just hanging out above us.
July 17, 2022 · 9:48 PM · CHEVRON
Oak Forest, IL
Looking east, aircraft flying south at 9:45 pm brightly lit orange and red non blinking lit aircraft. First I saw 3 in a formation in night sky going south disappear into cloudy sky. Then I saw 2 more together and 3 singular ones going same direction exactly. They were visible for about 30 seconds each.