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Lewistown · IL, USA
Red lights traveling in the same general direction, moving slowly and steadily across the night sky.
Elmwood Park · IL, USA
Flickering white lights due west in a curved, symmetrical pattern, moving downward to the south.
Normal · IL, USA
White/yellow ball of light, started bright, faded out as it came closer to the surface.
Crystal Lake · IL, USA
Glowing Light With Halo of Light Surrounding
Rockford · IL, USA
Light shrouded in aura.
Oakwood Hills · IL, USA
Object made abrupt U-turn at a very high rate of speed.
Montrose · IL, USA
Ball of light chased by U.S. military.
Rantoul · IL, USA
4th of July UFO.
Orland Park · IL, USA
Long lasting flashing light flashing on and off same duration for the 20 min. I checked on it. No other objects. ((anonymous report))
Oak Lawn · IL, USA
Not a satellite. ((anonymous report))
Wonder Lake · IL, USA
Orange lights rising from West to East in the Northern sky.
Arlington Heights · IL, USA
Airplane-sized light seen in night sky going abnormally fast before extinguishing.
Bridgeview · IL, USA
Bridgeview, IL, blue light. ((anonymous report))
LaFayette · IL, USA
Bright white light. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a sighting of the planet, Venus. PD))
Chicago · IL, USA
Notice an object over Chicago west of the moon, I waited an hour to see if it moved. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))
Kirkland · IL, USA
Reddish orange light that got brighter and dimmed out, twice, the second time getting brighter and dimming out even quicker.
Glendale Heights · IL, USA
Observation of red light that stopped and changed direction at a very high speed multiple times.
Glendale Heights · IL, USA
Oservation of a craft that stopped and changed direction a a very high speed multiple times.
Chicago · IL, USA
On February 20, 2017 at 8:11 P.M. I ((name deleted)),((teenager)), saw multiple UFOs outside my window on my Southwest Airlines flight.
Chicago · IL, USA
Blue light flew across the sky on the highway.
Chicago · IL, USA
Bright white light moving over Chicago.
Woodridge · IL, USA
Bright orange light in sky. Got out cell phones to take pic & bright beam of light shot down from sky as I clicked pic IMG_0428.JPG.
Multiple · IL, USA
3 objects spotted separately, shaft of light aimed at one of them.
Schaumburg · IL, USA
Orange-red lights traveling in formation quickly over suburban sky