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)
Olney · IL, USA
Stargazing, saw a dimly lit V-shape coming overhaed from west t east, thought it was geese, but to fast-dissapeared to east in 8-10 sec
Chicago (1 hours south ofoff I 57) · IL, USA
I tried to post this yesterday but could not get to the site so I wrote it all down on a wp so i would not get anything wrong
Jerseyville (north of) · IL, USA
A moving, brightly lit object was about the cross the highway in front of my but vanished.
Lincolnshire · IL, USA
Red fireball travelling south to north with tail 4 or 5 times size of object. Lasted 7 seconds then winked out.
Bloomington · IL, USA
walking my dog early in the a.m. just happened to look up and saw what looked like two stars at about that distance folllowing each ot
Hodgkins · IL, USA
Several co-workers and I were at work by the quarry in Hodgkins, IL and saw something in the sky.
Chicago · IL, USA
In a one hour period during a blackout, I witnessed 6 bright green spheres, flying across the sky from South-East to North-West.
Justice · IL, USA
2 points of light, leaving "light trail" as they moved through the sky
Moline · IL, USA
Wife reported a brilliant flash of green light with a tail. She saw the video of the recent leonids and insists it did not look like t
Sycamore · IL, USA
As I was taking out the garbage,I noticed something moving across the night sky at a very fast rate of speed.I saw 2 triangle shaped,di
Carbondale · IL, USA
An unidentified flying object sited over Carbondale Illinois. The object travelled from North to South in a direct path at a speed tha
Hoffman Estates · IL, USA
saw something in the air
Rockford · IL, USA
saw 2 very bright objects in western sky, one disappearing from view somehow (not sure where it went) the other object was huge, triang
Elgin · IL, USA
I can only say that I know what I saw, I even took a digital picture of it. 1:30 in the afternoon, clear blue sky, an airplane head
Mt Sterling · IL, USA
3 orange fireballs in triangle formation - 1 triangle shaped craft without sound.
Ipava · IL, USA
An object which resmbled car headlights in the sky was spotted to SW. A discernable craft flew directly overhead and proceeded to disa
Carbondale · IL, USA
a Black object not moving. It was about 1500-2000 feet in altitude, and about the size of a gumball held at arms length.
Elgin · IL, USA
While looking up at sky I noticed a bright light hovering above the sky. then I noticed a jet airliner traveling in the same area and I
Carbondale · IL, USA
I saw a spherical object at a distance. It had a slight green glow. It just appeared, then took off in a northeast direction very qui
Jacksonville · IL, USA
First one appeared in the eastern sky and moved slowly south, about 10 minutes later another light appeared in the same spot the first
Chicago (O'hare Airport) · IL, USA
I was on patrol I looked up in the sky at the little dipper & at the bottom left of it inbetween a star to the left bottom was a very b
Chicago (SW sky over Lake Michigan) · IL, USA
Lying in bed I noticed a bright ball in the sky that rapidly changed colors from red to blue to white. After realizing that it hadn't
Tolono · IL, USA
I was trimming hedges. took break, looked up an saw object appear the disappear
Jonesville · IL, USA
had seen the same lookung object earlier in day disapeared behind buildings around 4:30 Iwas stuck on lift bridge it was not moving abo
Galesburg · IL, USA
a ball bearing aprox 200 feet from ground