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)
Sycamore · IL, USA
We saw seven dull orange near ball-like lights traveling accrost the sky.
Sycamore · IL, USA
I was driving down Rt 23 when I seen a giant light brighten up the sky. It lasted only 2 secounds appeared to be only a fireball but it
Buffalo Grove · IL, USA
3 dots of light came together in a triangle formation with a green light in the middle. Appeared from the west. Car stalled shortly bef
Aurora · IL, USA
Resident spotted a still aircraft at low altitude on 3/5/2015 at 7:30 pm. in Aurora, Illinois.
Alton · IL, USA
Article from local newspaper.
Oak Lawn · IL, USA
Bright Light UFO near Chicago Ridge Mall.
Streamwood · IL, USA
A light I have never seen before in that area. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a celestial body? PD))
Chicago · IL, USA
At about 11:30pm on 03/11/2015 I heard a high pitched noise above my house. A noise I've never heard before. So I looked in the way I h
Chicago · IL, USA
Witnessed 6-8 white-ish disks fly in a straight line 2-3x faster than a plane beneath sparse cloud cover over downtown Chicago.
Bloomington · IL, USA
Starlike object in western sky seen by many on multiple occasions. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
West Frankfort · IL, USA
I seen a low flying dark/grey, large chevron shaped object, no lights or sound.
Grayslake · IL, USA
((HOAX??)) 3 chevron shaped objects hovering one on top of the other.
Wheaton · IL, USA
Bright light flying slowly shows a triangle craft at very slow speeds over Wheaton, Illinois.
Carbondale · IL, USA
2 big, white lights hovering over Carbondale, and 5 helicopters circling around them.
Chicago · IL, USA
Light high above Chicago with pulsing red lights, 2 chevron shaped craft with red lights no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Arcturus. PD))
Vernon Hills · IL, USA
pinpoint lights in V formation seen in the night sky
Dupo · IL, USA
I saw a craft in the sky lots of lights and shaped like a space craft.
Fox River Grove · IL, USA
5 bright reddish to orange sphere like aircraft moving from south to north in the sky east of Cary, IL . no sound or typical blinking a
Bartlett · IL, USA
I was driving and about to turn into my neighborhood and saw a cross shaped aircraft with white lights on the tips and one red and one
Edwardsville · IL, USA
We saw numerous flashing lights in the sky which were very bright and continued for a long time.
Villa Park · IL, USA
Flashing blue and green lights.
Libertyville · IL, USA
Beam of light, green sky surrounding, then the beam went away...
Odin · IL, USA
They flew over at about 3 times the speed of a jet they were round in shape red in color with what looked like white cone shaped points
Chicago · IL, USA
Very bright moving over one another.
Woodson · IL, USA
2 orange spheres seen East of Woodson, Illinois and south of Woodson-Franklin Rd..