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Chicago · IL, USA
It looked like a glowing red ball of light in the sky, lasted about 45 seconds, then became smaller and disappeared quickly into the sk
Chicago · IL, USA
Bright orange ufo in sky midway area!
Tremont · IL, USA
Orange white object with two lights white green alternating in color.
Burbank · IL, USA
Not experimental aircraft because it disappeared
Neoga/Mattoon (between; on I-57) · IL, USA
Never seen anything like that before. Definitely not a firework. Definitely lasted a good deal of time. It was quite bright. Not a mete
River Grove · IL, USA
I was smoking a cigarette through my window, when I spotted very white bright lights hovering in the sky.
Bloomington (outside; north of) · IL, USA
Traveling north on Route 29 outside Bloomington when in the sky was some type of craft that kept changing positions.
Johnsburg · IL, USA
Slow, Low, from Northwest to Southeast, vertical unblinking lights, then disappeared.
Woodstock · IL, USA
My husband and I saw a round, orange object travel in a straight southerly direction then it got smaller and disappeared.
Frankfort · IL, USA
One adult male and adult female witnessed 6 crafts, one orange the others orange, went from flew overhead and blinked out one by one.
Buffalo Grove · IL, USA
Bright starlike object with changing speeds and floating movement at very high altitude moving W to E, without dimming in intensity.
Chicago · IL, USA
It was was a light!
Chicago · IL, USA
It was a light, and just changing colors.
Chicago · IL, USA
It was kind of a light but more like circle.
Chicago · IL, USA
Large craft, triangular in the front/middle section, wide across with an arrowhead/chevron look, fading in/out of sky, lights on bottom
Chicago · IL, USA
Dark large object almost camouflaged by night sky, red balls of light underneath, moved slowly over my house, made no sound at all.
Joliet · IL, USA
Two orange fire balls moving strangely.
Lombard · IL, USA
Black Hawks chasing object outside O'Hare airspace.
Crystal Lake · IL, USA
Shiny silver white disk vanishing out of thin air, then reappearing.
Lisle · IL, USA
2 red-orange balls of light in sky in Lisle, IL.
Pecatonica · IL, USA
Large, silent, triangular craft.
Matteson · IL, USA
Strange bright objects in sky over Matteson, Il. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD))
Sublette · IL, USA
Def not planes...red orange lights looked like fire almost in side of something that wasn't a plane but more of a spaceship shape Saw 3
Mount Vernon · IL, USA
Small object hovering over a neighbor's house.