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Rockford · IL, USA
small orange light suddenly changed shape and disappeared!
Highland Park · IL, USA
A fireball like object floated in the sky ahead for about 2 minutes and then dropped into the woods below never to be seen again.
Evanston · IL, USA
I saw a bright light similiar to a starburst fade out and disappear and then faded back to a very bright light. It was about 3:10 a.m.
Downers Grove · IL, USA
The gaurd of the building I work in was called by the gaurd of teh sister building asking what the "lights " were. he proceded outside
Palos Hills · IL, USA
Green plasma ball style object over Chicago, IL
Geneva · IL, USA
Blue Orb seen in Illinois.
Naperville · IL, USA
Object was circular to oval shape with 3-4 dark areas (perhaps trapazoidal) on bottom and moved silently.
Chicago · IL, USA
A friend and I saw a silent swooping reflective object fly past into clouds, then back again ascending out of sight.
Loves Park · IL, USA
Trianglular object no sound flew over us as we were looking at stars.
Dana · IL, USA
a large silver blue tinted object
Darien · IL, USA
bright light in my window, stops, flies in oppisite direction.
Greenfield · IL, USA
Irregular shape with twinkling lights.
Greenfield · IL, USA
the perfect V over illinois
Ringwood · IL, USA
We witnessed 4 swirling balls of light that met in the night sky and dropped a shaft of light to the ground
Cahokia/Granite City · IL, USA
A black triangular craft with 4 lights green and blue moved slowly through the sky.
Chicago (O'Hare Airport) · IL, USA
UFO spotted over o'hare airport. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting by airline employee. PD))
DeSoto · IL, USA
I observed A very bright and long duration meteor rip through the skys over so. Ill. It was a very impressive show .
Geneva · IL, USA
Follow up
Chicago · IL, USA
have observed two spheres flying in trail formation west to east nearly collided into each other took evasive cws, one veered north out
Edinburg · IL, USA
A triangular object low across the sky
Glenn Ellyn · IL, USA
circular shadow on ground reveals nothing in the sunny sky to create it.
Burr Ridge · IL, USA
Black Triangle Floats over treeline
Cottage Hills · IL, USA
Guitar pick shaped aircraft hovering above trees.
Schuyler County · IL, USA
Observed bright green light fall with no tail, fragment into bright orange-yellow lights that remained in a stationary position.