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Barrington Hills · IL, USA
Nearly vertical series of lights (12 or 14 bluish with fucshia at the top) over Barrington Hills lasting for four seconds.
Iuka · IL, USA
BIG ORANGE CIRCLE GLOW OF LIGHT OVER FIELDS OF ILLINOIS.
Streamwood · IL, USA
Thunder like noise and small light
Buffalo Grove · IL, USA
While sitting outside with a friend, looking out west into the distance I saw an orange light moving southeast towards us. This little
Chicago · IL, USA
Odd pulsing lights west of Chicago
Orland Hills · IL, USA
strange objects in the sky
Gridley · IL, USA
Multiple Moving Stars in Rural IL. ((NUFORC Note: ISS sighting. Satellites are different sizes, and have different albedos. PD))
Spring Valley · IL, USA
Bright, light, bounces across the night sky.
Alton · IL, USA
huge triangle shaped object with 3 extremely bright lights on bottom
Odin · IL, USA
Jet Aircraft chase Ball of Light over Odin Illinois. ((NUFORC Note: Maybe not a serious report?? PD))
Willowbrook · IL, USA
I was sitting at the red light in traffic when for no apparent reason my eyes focused on the sky, it was partly cloudy day sunny, when
Manhattan · IL, USA
Yellow star shape craft
Chicago Ridge · IL, USA
Airplane looking orange fireball, like a plane going down.
Waltonville · IL, USA
UFO fleet witnessed in Southern Illinois, during the summer of 2009.
Warrenville · IL, USA
strange flying craft in paralell formation that was followed by red craft at rapid speed.
Marengo · IL, USA
orange fireball floating in the sky about 20 sec looking west from Marengo Illinois then seemed to flicker out
Springfield · IL, USA
Orange fireball traveling vertical throughout the sky
Ottawa · IL, USA
It was this past Sunday when I looked up and say what I thought at first was a hawk flying very high like they do when looking for prey
Chicago · IL, USA
Flaming dot in the night sky
Galesburg · IL, USA
Cluster of lights appeared just before sunrise and travelled across the sky.
Mattoon · IL, USA
Yellow egg shaped object in the eastern sky; flew south
Berwyn · IL, USA
small very bright pin prick of light zig-zagging across the sky extreamly fast.
Roscoe · IL, USA
My son and I saw two object that we thought were stars but they were kind of dancing around...opposite sides of sky
Lake Villa · IL, USA
Other neighbors have described the same object...at different times/days.