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St.Charles · IL, USA
Walking my dog, bright light came out of west high overhead, no noise, green, orange, yellow tail, chunks dropping off object, it cross
Elgin · IL, USA
Ok, I was pulling out of the bank parking lot with a friend, and when I was pulling out, in the sky i saw the object falling towards th
Taylorville · IL, USA
A bright burning light or fireball traveling North to South, that gradually disappeared.
Oakbrook · IL, USA
a large bright light, green in color with a tail with 2 smaller balls in the tale, floating from east to west below the planes circling
Sycamore · IL, USA
Witness described a fireball like object with a large multi-colored head (basketball or two) with a large tail extending behind it 10 h
Chicago · IL, USA
Triangular shaped, solid bright white with bright white tail, moving very fast over north/downtown Chicago, directly towards Lake Michi
Chicago · IL, USA
Green fireball followed by tail of red going northeast across sky
Crystal Lake · IL, USA
Nov 16,1999 Meteor, fireball sighting
Urbana · IL, USA
Objects were shaped like short contrails. But upon accelleration a round object appeared at the front of the contrail
Bloomington · IL, USA
light
Oak Brook · IL, USA
a green-blue light comes out and down out of a cloud, and goes back into the cloud
Addison (I-355 and US 20 (Lake St.) · IL, USA
Saucer shaped object,with rows of red lights on bottom side; one white lighttop and bottom
Lewistown · IL, USA
saw 4 or 5 little lights in the north sky. they reappeared and disappeared and they went along in a line, and one light got bigger, and
Downers Grove · IL, USA
Bizzare shaped object that looked like the planet Saturn appeared out of nowhere, and dissapeared
Lombard · IL, USA
It was so huge it took my breath away. At first I thought it was the moon until I opend my sun roof and saw the moon above me. I follow
Westmont · IL, USA
oval shaped huge object with orange running lights circling ship . moving very slow
Chicago (southwest suburbs of) · IL, USA
In a suburb of Chicago-Driving north on Harlem Ave I saw a huge object. There were very bright lights around the bottom and a large bri
Rochelle · IL, USA
While driving into Rochelle...saw a glowing ball of light falling over a cornfield and disappearing into a V-Shaped opening in the sky.
Orland Park/Palos Park · IL, USA
strange circular lite flying in a set pattern sometimes 2 lite but as many as 12
Tinley Park · IL, USA
I was outside having a smoke and noticed two objects in the sky or space far up shooting across the sky and were red and blue tint of c
Chicago · IL, USA
I am the producer of the CBS television Series "Early Edition" filmed in Chicago. A second unit filming a locked off shot of a clock i
Galva/Victoria/Oak Run · IL, USA
Three balls of light come out of a cornfield aprox. 40 yards above the ground and about 20 yards from the road. Multiple sightings wi
Frankfort/New Lenox · IL, USA
First noticed object in Western sky, like a craft with a small contrail.As veiwing object it seemed to look like a cigar shape. My hus
Prairie View · IL, USA
Light in sky moving rapidly, then disappearing