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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 a light, and just changing colors.
Palatine · IL, USA
Red/orange lights or flames in the late evening sky--moving northwest.
Bartlet · IL, USA
Intermittent changing lights in sky west of Bartlet. Blue, yellow, purple. The lights dropped 1 by 1 then vanished. Happened numerous t
Chicago · IL, USA
Blue lights high-speed with a sudden stop, Chicago il near downtown.
Galena · IL, USA
A very bright orange reddish stationary light in the eastern slightly southern sky about 30 degrees above horizon.
Barrington · IL, USA
I randomly have been seeing small light in the sky changing colors moving around. It's been like this for the past week.
Oak Lawn · IL, USA
Bright Light UFO near Chicago Ridge Mall.
Streamwood · IL, USA
A light I have never seen before in that area. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a celestial body? PD))
Bloomington · IL, USA
Starlike object in western sky seen by many on multiple occasions. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
Carbondale · IL, USA
2 big, white lights hovering over Carbondale, and 5 helicopters circling around them.
Libertyville · IL, USA
Beam of light, green sky surrounding, then the beam went away...
Romeoville · IL, USA
Bright lights in the southwest sky in Illinois.
Oak Lawn · IL, USA
Their back again! 2 Identical Lights that look like bright stars.
Warrensburg · IL, USA
Temporary hovering light that changed colors, then vanished.
Goreville · IL, USA
Yellow-orange flashing object in Southern Illinois near Interstates 57 and 24
Oak Lawn · IL, USA
Invisible Object Flying with Sun glarinng off it.
Naperville · IL, USA
Light above Naperville.
Bloomingdale · IL, USA
Three lights, 2 bright then grew dim. All disappeared.
Chicago Heights · IL, USA
My sister called me and told me to immediately go outside and look in the sky. I watched dozens of Orange lights travel from north to s
Macomb · IL, USA
There were two lights that appeared one right after the other, than jets were in the air and a formation of lights was spotted.
Griggsville · IL, USA
Row of amber lights in the sky.
Hickory Hills · IL, USA
At approximately 3:30AM 11-21-14 my 1 year old grandaughter woke up crying. After getting her comforted and back to sleep (about 4:00AM
Carbondale · IL, USA
Comet-like white orb of light abruptly stops in the sky and slowly hovers around the skies south of Carbondale.