Unknown UFO Sightings in Illinois
427 unknown-shaped UFO sightings reported in Illinois since 1959, peaking in 2019 (30 reports).
- Total sightings
- 427
- Span
- 1959–2022
- Peak year
- 2019 (30 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Unknown
1959–2022 · peak 2019 (30 reports)
Chicago · IL, USA
Fighter Jet over Chicago
Freeport · IL, USA
circle cluster of bright lights change to star like cluster and disappears!
McHenry · IL, USA
Ball of light moving to the east slow and silent around 2 miles high.
Albion · IL, USA
me and 2 of my friends was walking from fairfeild to albion illinois on friday the 18th,the time was 4:30 we would walk for 20 minutes
McHenry · IL, USA
I saw some lights in the back yard and grabbed my camera to take pictures. The pictures just looked black after I took them so I never
Des Plaines · IL, USA
bright orange light in sky hovers and disappears
Chicago · IL, USA
Burning-like object appears and quickly ascends over Lake Michigan in north part of Chicago
Bloomington · IL, USA
Bright Vertical Light Beams (no visible craft)
Quad cities (near; over I-88) · IL, USA
The Craft had several brigth colored ligths, appear to be large, disappeared when it flew straight up, it's lights faded off
Dixon · IL, USA
Strange cyclical white noise heard, pulsed one second on, 2 off then faded.
Fair Oaks (landings) · IL, USA
Triangle like object with bright white lights hovered over Old Collinsville Road near power lines and a cornfield.
Loves Park · IL, USA
Four unmoving, wide blue beams of light at night from sky to ground, with no light source.
Monee · IL, USA
Two bright objects just south of Chicago never moving, just fad away.
Chicago · IL, USA
Flash of light in a fan shape gradient across the southern sky of chicago.
Lake Bluff · IL, USA
Red/Blue lights moving around object with bright white light in tight formation
Lombard · IL, USA
Small circle or triangle with 3 dim white lights moving very quickly.
Burbank · IL, USA
Four unique objects form a rectangle in the western skies of Chicago.
Zion · IL, USA
3 round white lights in a triangle formation
Plainfield · IL, USA
the object stopped in mid air and changed directions 4 times, then flew away north
Great Lakes · IL, USA
Saw a plane in the sky that looked backward and flew across the sky silently.
Melrose Park · IL, USA
Colorful, pulsing light in western sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible a sighting of Jupiter in the western sky. PD))
Buffalo Grove · IL, USA
4 red lights on object in southeast night sky; object descended.
Great Lakes · IL, USA
blinking light over lake michigan
Joliet · IL, USA
unnidentified object over Joliet Il.
Elwood · IL, USA
UFO sound only