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)
Oak Lawn · IL, USA
Green light moving toward 103rd st from 95th & central - Moved for 6 seconds while I was on my cellphone I told my friend it was going
Oak Lawn · IL, USA
There was lots of traffic on the way to work. I was going past Denny's a restraunt traffic was moving 5 feet per 2 minutes. I saw a Fen
Mattoon · IL, USA
Red rectangle with bubble low in the sky.
Greenfield · IL, USA
Sightings in Greenfield, IL
Chicago · IL, USA
Object sighted after reviewing video taken from aircraft preparing to land
Springfield · IL, USA
Daytime sighting of an unknown object following the vapor trail of passing commercial jet.
South Elgin · IL, USA
Large bright blue light shoots across low in the sky
O'Fallon · IL, USA
it was old and just repaired
Edwardsville · IL, USA
Very large triangular shaped object with points of bright white light moving very slowly across a field and then following a highway.
Schaumurg · IL, USA
Matte black object on clear sunny day at est. 15,000 feet with three witnesses
Itasca · IL, USA
Thimble-shaped orange-white object observed sitting in traffic
Naperville · IL, USA
Sighting of inverted egg or tear drop object
Beecher · IL, USA
Round Disc Flying With Us While Driving
Richton Park · IL, USA
Blue outlined jellyfish-like craft, transparent center at first, then pulsing yellow, then pulsing purple
Buffalo Grove · IL, USA
I was watching T.V. when I saw lights and then the disk 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Great Lakes · IL, USA
blinking light over lake michigan
Joliet · IL, USA
unnidentified object over Joliet Il.
Chicago Ridge · IL, USA
Bright light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising light? Celestial body?? PD))
Delavan (near) · IL, USA
We seen a bright white light (object) falling rapidly at a 45 degree angle, then it disappeared.
Hoffman Estates (8 mi. NW of O'Hare Airport) · IL, USA
Strange Shaped Rectangle Object Sighted 8 Miles NW of O'Hare International Airport
North Riverside · IL, USA
Bright ball light craft.
Westchester (Canada) · IL, USA
Bright light object not like any other aircraft hovered in same place for 10-15 min the disappeared.
Crestwood · IL, USA
A staight row of lights from the underside, and full speed in the sky like a falling star and noise
Cambrige · IL, USA
((HOAX??)) We saw 2 light go across the sky and me and my friends and looked up and saw it
Cahokia · IL, USA
9 witnesses to several disk shaped aircraft in the night sky.