Circle UFO Sightings in Illinois
421 circle-shaped UFO sightings reported in Illinois since 1952, peaking in 2012 (33 reports).
- Total sightings
- 421
- Span
- 1952–2022
- Peak year
- 2012 (33 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Circle
1952–2022 · peak 2012 (33 reports)
Kirkland · IL, USA
((HOAX??)) Dammed scared and we all went home. Noone believed us and we just didnt talk about it anymore
Elgin · IL, USA
A circular object with alternating flashing lights
Murphysboro · IL, USA
I was camping out with a friend in another friend's Christmas tree farm north of Murphysboro. We had dragged two lawn chairs out into
Dekalb · IL, USA
Circular object with alternating flashing lights with a bright beam of light focused on a tower.
Wilsonville · IL, USA
Wilsonville,IL 1979 also known at time for its radioactive waste dump in seventies
Wilsonville · IL, USA
Wilsonville,IL 1979 also known at time for its radioactive waste dump in seventies
SerlingHights · IL, USA
((HOAX)) Orange glowing objects low large and round saw many but these very large.
Calumet City · IL, USA
Perfectly round with blue and orange perimeter lights. Windows all around the perimeter.
Salem · IL, USA
Object with string of red lights hovers over strip mall then moves over interstate highway before shooting into the sky.
Bloomington · IL, USA
I I WAS WATCHING FOR METEORITES FROM MY FRONT PORCH, LIKE I DO EVERY YEAR ON AUG.10AND11. I HEARD A LOUD CRASH LIKE FARM MACHINARY SHU
Evanston · IL, USA
A witness in Evanston, Illinois reported a roughly 90-foot, gray, saucer-shaped object with white spinning lights on its underside, during a five-to-six-minute sighting in August 1972.
Chicago · IL, USA
A bright white, circular disk-shaped object was reported descending along the outside of a high-rise on Chicago's lakefront in June 1970, for about five minutes.
La Grange · IL, USA
Saucer sighting
Chicago · IL, USA
Three reddish-orange spheres were reported moving from south to north over Chicago, Illinois, in April 1970, following a mechanical, straight-line path for about one minute.
Greenville · IL, USA
My son and I went to a ballpark close by to play- we were the only ones there, I happened to look up and right over us, were 3 round uf
Glenview · IL, USA
Witnesses in Glenview, Illinois, reported a large ball of light hovering above a road, observed by an estimated 25 to 30 people during a sighting lasting 15 minutes or more in 1967 or 1968.
Waukegan · IL, USA
hummung hovering then quick exit
Chicago · IL, USA
A witness in Chicago, Illinois reported an orange, disk-like circular object with darker crater-like markings, in a sighting lasting about two minutes in June 1964.
Great Lakes · IL, USA
A witness near Great Lakes, Illinois described a circular object with lights, seen hovering and appearing to spin in two directions with visible sparks, lasting about 20 minutes, July 1963.
Chicago (south suburb) · IL, USA
A witness in a south Chicago suburb reported two objects, observed as a preteen in the early 1950s, for about 10 minutes.
Granite City · IL, USA
granite city IL ufo sighting. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))