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)
Chicago · IL, USA
Ring of fire
Naperville · IL, USA
5 bright orange glowing lights traveling over Naperville Illinois
Arlington Heights · IL, USA
UFO sighting over my health with pictures.
Arlington Heights · IL, USA
Extra Star (What it looked like.) on the handle portion of the Big Dipper - Stationary then moved in a northerly direction.
Bensenville · IL, USA
At approximately 8:07am looking east towards O’Hare airport , I seen two objects in the sky.It was a sunny morning with some clouds
Glenview · IL, USA
Glenview, july 27, 2010, approximately at 9 pm . saw fireball on the top of Jewel -Osco for 3 min
Chicago · IL, USA
Orange lighted fireballs over north side of Chicago.
South Elgin · IL, USA
A round shaped light with no movement. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Jupiter, or another celestial body?? PD))
South Elgin · IL, USA
2 "over easy" egg shaped objects orange in color with green static charges
Harristown · IL, USA
Ball of Light with tail that changed directions
Chicago · IL, USA
We saw about 10 glowing objects floating in a similar path in Southwestern sky 7/31/10 about midnite.
Chicago · IL, USA
Amber/orange unknown light
Aurora · IL, USA
Black / opaque/ silent sphere transversing the evening sky
Rockford · IL, USA
Hovering white light that dims then regains full white light while dropping in altitude slowly and then stopping to hover.
Oak Lawn · IL, USA
Oak Lawn Lights Crash HD 3D Effect
Oak Lawn · IL, USA
Fleets of UFO's 8-15 over Oak Lawn
Chicago · IL, USA
Weird banging noises @ 4 different corners at a time in the sky lasting for 10-15 min.
Byron · IL, USA
Disturbing rumbling followed by loud whistling and finally a glimpse of the craft.
Chicago · IL, USA
A sentient animal that looked human, with no eyes but a mouth with flatter lips stood at the foot of my bed. ((anonymous report))
Chicago · IL, USA
Black object floating around airplane.
Elburn · IL, USA
A large, amber glowing circular flying object was spotted, staying stationary for 40 secs before shifting to the left and disappearing
Darien · IL, USA
5 orage lit objects acending out of our orbit in formation much like the shuttle.
Blue Island · IL, USA
the alien craft was black and disk shaped and it traveled so fast it literally disappeared and appeared to great distances.
Rockford · IL, USA
We were walking at 2:35ish AM and my wife spotted this white no more of a shopping bag color ciruclar round shape in the sky, it was be
Rockford · IL, USA
Circular, barely any light, huge, white-silver tinge, made no sound.