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)
Tinley Park · IL, USA
3 red lights movin E/SE
Tinley Park · IL, USA
3red lights sitting still for 20 minutes then moved very slowly and vanished one after another My fiend that I called video taped it.
Tinley Park · IL, USA
three lights in tinley park
Tinley Park · IL, USA
UFO visits in Tinley Park
Orland Park · IL, USA
3 solid red lights in a triangle over Tinley or Orland Park , east of LaGrange Road hovering
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Tinley Pk Red lights - have video
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Three red lights in the sky in tinley park. They all moved in unision.
Tinley Park · IL, USA
3 bright Orange lights over Tinley Park, IL slow moving
Orland Park · IL, USA
Three red lights the hovered in a form of a triangle.
Orland Hills · IL, USA
3 bright red lights(triangular formation)seen from Orland Hills
Tinley Park · IL, USA
At about 8pm central time, October 31, 2004, 3 bright red lights were seen in the Eastern Sky. They started out in a gradual "L" forma
Oak Forest · IL, USA
3 red lights move slow across the sky and fade out one by one
Orland Hills · IL, USA
3 red lights that stayed in a triangle formation, moving very slowly then seem to be hovering
Tinley Park · IL, USA
3 Bright Red Objects in South Eastern Sky that took different formations then disappeared.
Tinley Park · IL, USA
3 laser red lights forming a triangle and at times a straight line traveled west to east slowly. after 20 minutes one disappeared. Ano
Tinley Park · IL, USA
3 orange lights in the sky over Tinley Park.
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Red Lights again in Tinley Park, second sighting in two months
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Three lights appeared to form a traingle
Tinley Park · IL, USA
3 red lights moving in pattern of straight line and triangle (not first sighting)
Manhattan · IL, USA
Red Lights seen from 2 different locations at same time while on phone with family member.
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Red lgihts....moving really weird...fast than slow
Tinley Park (viewed from) · IL, USA
Was notified by a neighbor of 3 bright non blinking red crisp lights in the eastern sky. Went outside to observe 3 bright non blinking
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Three red sphere shaped lights moved slowly across the sky and then one of them just disappered, the others followed.
Tinley Park · IL, USA
3 motionless red spheres of light
Tinley Park · IL, USA
3 red lights in southeast sky hovering slowly