Cigar UFO Sightings in Illinois
81 cigar-shaped UFO sightings reported in Illinois since 1960, peaking in 2011 (6 reports).
- Total sightings
- 81
- Span
- 1960–2022
- Peak year
- 2011 (6 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Cigar
1960–2022 · peak 2011 (6 reports)
Greenfield · IL, USA
Large cigar-shaped object moving in an unusual way. ((anonymous report))
Olney · IL, USA
A cigar-shaped object about the size of a fifteen-hundred-square-foot home hovered roughly two hundred feet above a house near Olney, Illinois, for ten minutes in October 1969.
Crystal Lake · IL, USA
A witness in Crystal Lake, Illinois reported a cigar-shaped object hovering over a farm field in October 1968, observed for about thirty minutes.
Chicago · IL, USA
Witnesses in Chicago, Illinois, reported a cigar-shaped object during a ten-minute sighting in September 1966, noting that no aircraft were reportedly flying in the area at the time.
Peoria · IL, USA
Cigar shaped object with windows in it
Rockford,il · IL, USA
While walking home from small store in our apt.Complex, I saw a bright lite heading down from sky. I thought the light looked as th