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)
Mundelein · IL, USA
Faint Black Trail extending out in front of high altitude aircraft
Naperville · IL, USA
Meteorite Sighting Sunday Evening February 4, 2007
Palatine · IL, USA
Solid red lights over O'hare airport.
Chicago · IL, USA
Very low and slow-flying aircraft
Danville · IL, USA
Far away stationary object seen then suddenly disappeared
Wheeling · IL, USA
saw something from the norwest suburbs of chicago on Monday 11/06/06
Chicago · IL, USA
nothing ((NUFORC Note: Comment critical of NUFORC and our coverage of the sighting over O'Hare Airport, on this date. PD))
Aurora · IL, USA
Shiny Object near Aurora, IL
Chicago · IL, USA
Perfect giant circular hole in heavy clouds with a clear blue sky only within the hole.
Geneva · IL, USA
3 large amber colored lights hovering motionless in the sky.
Eldorado · IL, USA
2 space ships in the sky
Chicago · IL, USA
Strange Lights in sky never seen before in hovering manner
Champaign · IL, USA
four objects moving northwest to southeast with flashing eratic red and white bright lights. fast and eratic
Bloomington · IL, USA
Series of stationary lights in the sky, unmoving and constant for apprx an hour and ten minutes.
Bloomington · IL, USA
Noiseless, motionless, seemingly shapeless object hovers over rooftops around midnight.
Aurora/Wheaton/Warrenville areas · IL, USA
numerous reports of sightings in a location
Fairview Heights · IL, USA
Red, blue, and green lights on a stair-step shaped hovering object in Fairview Heights, IL.
Chicago · IL, USA
Spinning flat objects
Lacon · IL, USA
Four to six EXTREMLY fast moving lights, "played" around 5 stable, glimmering vertical "stars".
Lombard · IL, USA
3 Lights stopped and turned on a level plane
Mounds · IL, USA
lights in clouds, 4 witnesses for sure
Collinsville · IL, USA
I had just gotten out of my car. The night was mild for November and clear. I paused to look up at the stars above the roof of my hou
Mt Carmel · IL, USA
Flahing lights from a huge object in a sky behind cloud cover
Oak Forest · IL, USA
it lasted for about one minute
Lake Villa · IL, USA
Bright stationary red light on a partially cloudy night in an area of the sky in which no stars were visable. This was not a star/plane