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Downers Grove · IL, USA
Metallic cylinder in sky, hovering still no sound or movement.
Elgin · IL, USA
Long cylinder flying high in the sky no noice or lights.
Bolingbrook · IL, USA
Spherical object seen over Bolingbrook, IL
Bloomingdale · IL, USA
I saw a ship that i saw on tv a month ago, five states over from illinois. its big stays dark for 7 seconds then a light turns silver
ALSIP · IL, USA
White cylinder object no wings, no means of propulsion, no sound, flying South 1000 feet in air, rapidly accelerates and is gone
Mchenry · IL, USA
A bright red object traveling like a plane going southwest. As I watched, a red spark rained downward from The object and the object ke
Fox Lake · IL, USA
It was shinny, but had black in the bottom. No wings. No clouds or anything else in the sky. I pulled over, got out of me car and it
Rock Island · IL, USA
Saw something barrel shaped and white up high (went in and out of clouds), looked like an oil drum on it's side, no visible lights, no
Dixon · IL, USA
My husband,2 kids, and I were in the pool around 8pm on Sunday the 1st when we noticed what initially looked like a smaller plane, a si
Barrington · IL, USA
Husband & I watched 2 shiny whitish-silver bright tube shaped objects float by in the sky no wings. ((anonymous source))
Tinley park · IL, USA
6/22/19 9:40pm cylinder shape craft moving from NW to E very random flashing lights as if it were taking pictures. ((anonymous report))
Hampshire · IL, USA
I thought it was a shooting star, but it was much closer and larger and flew across the sky over the corn and bean fields for 10 second
Peoria · IL, USA
((HOAX??)) Long, big, bright White Cylinder over my place in daylight. ((anonymous report))
Peoria · IL, USA
Bright, White, Long, Huge Cylindrical Object above my place. ((anonymous report))
Mattoon · IL, USA
Silver cylinder shaped moving slowly across sky N-NW direction. ((anonymous report))
Nashville · IL, USA
While night fishing at Washington Co. Lake, there was a very bright light in my SE. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))
Ottawa · IL, USA
Cylinder shaped object over northern Illinois.
Schiller Park · IL, USA
Possible ufo crash.
De Land · IL, USA
((HOAX??)) Sphere thru telescope exploded into several smaller spheres.
Elgin · IL, USA
A cylinder shaped object with a reddish glow and yellow fireball clusters moves slowly across the sky.
Galatia · IL, USA
Aircraft with three large triangles of lights, one red triangle with two white triangles on each side rose from a nearby field.
Niles · IL, USA
Black horizontal object floating with low lying clouds over Niles, IL
Elmhurst · IL, USA
Bright orange cylinder with four bright flames in middle. Unmanned. Very quiet. Traveling east to west.
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Silver Silent Object Possibly with no wings