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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
April 13, 2022 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
White Hall, IL
Was sent from and old friend who didn't want to share due to her status in the community and was afraid from potential blowback. Objects came from behind clouds, continued to be in sight for several minutes before moving in formation back behind cloud cover. Completely silent, no obvious signs of propulsion such as contrails etc.
April 13, 2022 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
MACHESNEY PARK, IL
It was black and massive. Riding the tree lines going side to side . Bright lights. Quiet. I was terrified to drive under it. So I slowed down and it passed. I can't describe it. My only thought was I can see u
April 11, 2022 · 4:31 PM · TRIANGLE
Peoria, IL
The mother ship and smaller ships were very high in the sky. I was in the drivers seat of my car and stopped, waiting to turn left on an entrance ramp to Route 6 North. I looked up and saw the ships. I grabbed my cell phone and took a few pictures of the sky. When the photos are enlarged, I can see a small black orb. In one photo, you can see 2.
April 8, 2022 · 8:00 PM
Paris, IL
My neighbor/friend told me to look up at the sky. When I did 2 months later I hardly ever look down. I thought it was a plane at 1st but it definately wasnt really going anywhere but through the trees then disappear, reappear. We live on a deadend rd in rural East Central Illinois on the Indiana line surrounded by fields and woods. We see them nightly. If I dont want to go out to look.. every dog in the neighborhood howls, and barks until I do. Different shapes, colors of lights, and the amount of crafts we see. We have so many videos and pictures after 5 years of this new hobby, or passion I can't say it's a one-20 event. Its truly a nightly thing. Unless it's raining
March 28, 2022 · 10:45 AM · CIGAR
Northbrook, IL
I was sitting on my balcony when I noticed something floating that I thought was a white feather. As I continued to look I saw it wasn't a feather and I watched it move from east to west and I followed it until a tree obstructed my vision. It seemed to have disappeared. I had to stop and think awhile about what I had just seen.
February 17, 2022 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Collinsville, IL
Driving on the highway south and saw a bright teal column of light come from the clouds and touch the ground from what appeared to be several miles south and slightly west, possibly Belleville, Illinois. It lit up the clouds that it came from bright teal but it was 20 degrees outside and not lightning or a spotlight. Continued to stare in the direction with the other witness and didn’t not see any evidence of a tower or spotlight. It came from above and touched the ground then seemed to disappear and not go back into the clouds. Did not see object in the cloud from which it could have come from.
February 15, 2022 · 6:30 AM · FORMATION
Aurora, IL
Upon opening my living room blinds after my morning workout, I noticed a plane flying very low right under the clouds. I watched it to see if it was landing in a nearby airport and noticed it was not a typical plane. The craft was triangular in shape with a white light on each corner. After maybe a minute of staring at it the craft just vanished.
February 7, 2022 · 7:34 PM · FIREBALL
Hillsboro, IL
I was looking out in the field in front of my house. I saw three red lights in a triangle shape. Thinking it was maybe a tower. I came back out about 20 minutes later and one of the looked like a fireball. I filmed them but my camera wasn't very good but I saw more than it showed it really scared me.
January 28, 2022 · 12:32 AM · LIGHT
Newman, IL
This was caught on my surveillance camera. My two dogs woke me up barking at something and they do not ever bark. I knew something was going on I looked at my surveillance and I did not see that at first instead it was weird. It's hard to explain without seeming like I'm crazy. I am sending you the original surveillance & one I blew up and zoomed in on it
January 21, 2022 · 6:50 PM · SPHERE
Beecher, IL
This happens more than often out in Beecher but we always see this orbs sometimes one, or three or four all over the sky changing colors, staying for a while, or leaving and appearing quickly, they maneuver unlike common aircrafts, all over at a fast speed.
January 20, 2022 · 8:37 PM · DISK
New Lenox, IL
I was lying in bed when I saw bright white lights with some red lights hovering over open space between my backyard and a neighbor's backyard. I got up and wen to the window for a closer look and couldn't believe my eyes. What looked like a UFO was hovering over open space between behind our house. I called my husband to come see it. He saw it as well. We watched until it flew up over our house and out of sight (30-40 seconds).
January 13, 2022 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Bethalto, IL
I saw a huge v shaped craft really high up much higher then airplanes. It was moving incredibly fast as well. It was white but almost translucent.
January 11, 2022 · 9:50 AM · RECTANGLE
ST. JOHNS DU QUOIN ADDRESS, IL
I did not hear any noise they were traveling faster than a jet plane. Looked as if they were flying approx 300 miles above the earth. They were in a triangular shape. They were silver in in color and the edges of the craft were very thin in appearance. It was very odd so I thought I better report it.
January 3, 2022 · 10:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Union, IL
I have a photo of one craft that I captured on camera as it was hovering over my house.
January 3, 2022 · 3:00 PM · OVAL
Belvidere, IL
Was driving home and saw something bright in the sky that caught my attention thought it was a plane but then noticed it wasn’t and it looked like the bean in Chicago downtown sort of and as the light turned green I thought I can drive and see it and what it was but then it disssapeared like if the object had camouflaged itself
December 30, 2021 · 5:50 PM · SPHERE
Winnebago, IL
Sitting in our car at Winnebago corners at red light when a blue green orb flew right passed us.it was going west to east along the highway only a few hundred feet in the air.cruising at a pretty speed.
December 23, 2021 · 1:00 PM
Des Plaines, IL
I was going to a grocery store in Des Plaines Illinois. Saw a puff of smoke falling from above the sun on a downward trajectory. The several points of light appeared around the sun.
December 17, 2021 · 7:52 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
Stopped to take a couple pics with my girlfriend. Was not trying to focus on anything but skyline and noticed the strange lights and direction of travel when we got back to the hotel room.
December 3, 2021 · 10:30 PM · CYLINDER
Elgin, IL
Me and my son walked out of the house and Iooked up in the clear night sky to our amazement witnessed a UFO. We have power lines in front of our home, at first I thought it might be a glare from those power lines, not so. We walked to the middle of the steet past line power lines and veiwed a long silver,gray cylinder object flying high in the sky with no noice or lights. This object had to be at least five football fields long moving slow and then just slowly faded away like it never was there. The stange thing is it seem like the planes switched there fly pattern away from this object on there way to O'hare airport. We took a picture of it, you see the power lines to the left and the object to the right we forgot the flash was on the phone. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
December 3, 2021 · 6:01 PM · CYLINDER
Downers Grove, IL
Was with my son in back yard, I looked up and noticed a very clear cylinder shaped object with looked like 5 white lights. I kept eyes on it and called my son to me, he was in a tree in yard shooting targets with bb gun. He came to me and asked "what" he could tell by tone of my voice it was something serious. I said "what's that" and pointed to object, he looked and his eyes got big, jaw dropped and said "wtf is that" I said something like I just wanted to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing. I asked him to tell me what he saw, to confirm to me what I was seeing. He said to hurry and take a picture, but didn't have phone on me and didn't want to miss at least seeing it for longer. After watching it for a minute, the object and a cloud next to it seemed to fade before our eyes not take off flying in any direction, which was also very weird. It was still light out and sky was perfectly clear and blue in area once object "faded" away, my son asked "how did it do that" like I would know. I been searching for a report of same thing before I said anything, when seen report from person in Elgin describing same thing but no lights I used that date, I know it was 1st week of Dec., was wanting to just confirm someone else's report. Being in a Chicago suburb and being very obvious in sky, I thought there would be many reports of this object. It had to be pretty big, there were a handful of planes that could be seen in both easterly and western sky and from my observation this cylinder was much bigger. Hopefully this helps someone else seeing same thing.....
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedQuincy, IL
We were grilling food in the backyard at approximately 6:15PM when we noticed a string of lights moving across the sky. It was silent but stayed in the same form of a line. After a minute it disappeared completely!! [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedHuntley, IL
We were getting out of the car and gathering our groceries. I look up and there is a giant straight line of lights moving super slow. After a minute or so they faded out and disappeared. The lights were above farm lands and could not have been from any other objects. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
November 19, 2021 · 1:15 AM · CIRCLE
Lansing, IL
Was out EARLY taking pics had heard reports of lunar activity for the date
November 16, 2021 · 7:25 PM · SPHERE
Elgin, IL
I was biking home when I saw two stationary orange orbs in the sky. One was slightly higher than the other and to the right. I noticed they weren’t moving so I stopped and observed. They were very high as a plane flew past nearby and it was below them. As I was staring the one that was higher up suddenly faded out. I thought I saw a flash of light above me. I was underneath a broken street lamp so I was watching it, waiting for it to flicker again. It never did. Another flash of light caught my eye, this one was to the left. So the flashes of light corresponded with the position of orbs. When I looked back, the second orb was also gone.