UFO Sightings in Illinois
4,055 UFO sightings reported in Illinois since 1946, peaking in 2012 (270 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 4,055
- Span
- 1946–2025
- Peak year
- 2012 (270 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1946–2025 · peak 2012 (270 reports)
Top cities in Illinois
Chicago
1952–2021 · peak 2012 (29 reports)
Tinley Park
1971–2021 · peak 2004 (92 reports)
Rockford
1964–2022 · peak 2001 (42 reports)
Springfield
1979–2021 · peak 2020 (8 reports)
Oak Lawn
1946–2020 · peak 2010 (10 reports)
Orland Park
1995–2019 · peak 2005 (15 reports)
Peoria
1966–2020 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Naperville
1997–2022 · peak 2001 (4 reports)
Northbrook
1999–2022 · peak 2020 (16 reports)
Bloomington
1972–2020 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Oak Forest
2003–2016 · peak 2005 (18 reports)
Aurora
1995–2022 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Plainfield
1999–2020 · peak 2016 (5 reports)
Joliet
1979–2021 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Palatine
1961–2021 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Crystal Lake
1968–2021 · peak 2011 (4 reports)
Norris City
2018–2022 · peak 2018 (13 reports)
Elgin
1982–2021 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Frankfort
1996–2017 · peak 2004 (4 reports)
Lombard
1997–2019 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Chester · IL, USA
a small, yellow, plain disk that hovered slowly moving down the back road.
Romeoville · IL, USA
Two brite pulses of light in a circular shape seen for 5-10 minutes moving away from each other at a good rate of speed
Chicago · IL, USA
Neighbor caught some UFOs 2 bright white circular round objects flying over Chicago on his new digital video camera Saturday evening.
Orland Park · IL, USA
5 spheres rising and headed north, 2 silver, 3 white
Blue Island · IL, USA
solid black tri. moving slowly in stright line till went out of sight.
Palatine · IL, USA
6/24/05 Friday night at 10:40pm. I observed a formated shape in the sky that I knew was not from any country.
Palatine · IL, USA
I truely beleive I witnessed a UFO craft, from another world.
South Holland · IL, USA
Dark rectangular object in the sky which later appeared as a dark teardrop
Aurora · IL, USA
Darting star-like objects some bright some very faint,move up& down, zig-zag, & change diections rapidly
Carol Stream · IL, USA
6 sphear shaped dissapearing craft sighting
Chicago "highway" · IL, USA
Driving on highway and saw a white UFO moving very fast and low.
Edwardsville · IL, USA
ILLINOIS/MUFON REPORT: Black sphere seen flying rapidly in a straight-line course under clouds.
Ipava · IL, USA
The u.f.o. looked like a firework that shoots up but never explodes.
Franklin Park · IL, USA
A yellowish-orange glowing shape rotating counter clockwise on what appeared to be an assymetrical axis.
Harwood Heights · IL, USA
On may 31 2005 at about 10:30 pm I saw very fast moving light .It was flying across the "Big Dipper" constellation,making two circles w
El Paso (rural) · IL, USA
Large Meteor Re-Enters of El Paso
Springfield · IL, USA
Objects seen during daytime, moving, hovering, and changing color.
Manteno · IL, USA
UFO/Object tracked and observed over a 2hr plus time span that exhibited a clockwise circular motion with many colors. ((Sirius??))
Oaklawn - Hickory Hills · IL, USA
I was driving on I294 near OakLawn when I saw a strange light in the sky that strobed white with red and green every few seconds.
Oak Forest · IL, USA
I observed a flashing, erratically wandering light in the sky south of my back yard.
Galatia Area (Harco) · IL, USA
Bright blue-white light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius. Just a guess. PD))
Galesburg · IL, USA
bright light became much larger ((NUFORC Note: Probably Iridium satellite. PD))
Chicago · IL, USA
Wife and I were watching TV...she noticed a bright orange flash outside to the west/southwest. We're 7 stories up in our building, and
Antioch · IL, USA
Large circular charcoaled grey object spotted in Northern Illinois
Tinley Park · IL, USA
South and east of Frankfort, IL, approximately over nearby Tinley Park, myself (52) and my two daughters (13 and 10) observed three bri