Light UFO Sightings in Illinois
888 light-shaped UFO sightings reported in Illinois since 1955, peaking in 2004 (74 reports).
- Total sightings
- 888
- Span
- 1955–2022
- Peak year
- 2004 (74 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1955–2022 · peak 2004 (74 reports)
Tuscola · IL, USA
Small, very bright light hovering at maybe 4000 feet. Moving eratically. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a star. PD))
O'Fallon · IL, USA
A star looking light which suddenly moved and disappeared into the dark black skies near the crecent moon.
Elgin · IL, USA
bright white ball of light moving fast and smooth and silent
Dixon · IL, USA
Hovering, yellowship light dissapears into early morning sky.
Palatine · IL, USA
Orange and Red light
Sugar Grove · IL, USA
White lights in the clouds over US Rt 30, three separate witnesses, no alternate explanation to be found.
Evergreen Park · IL, USA
Light-filled balloon-like objects [15-25]in the eastern sky drifted northward for about 3min.,stopped for 1min, then disappeared.
Rockford · IL, USA
3 red lights in rockford NOT planes!!!
Milstadt · IL, USA
Red Glowing Objects flying in Milstadt September 4th, 2011
Rockford · IL, USA
Bright orange object seen over Rockford, IL, many witnesses.
Rockford · IL, USA
Small, fast, bright, silent UFO streaks across Rockford sky at super speed, disappears into cloud
Mokena · IL, USA
Steady Red/Orange light very bright until it went into cloud cover and faded from view
Quincy · IL, USA
We stopped by the park by near the river eating arby,s and we noticed that one star was out just one then we noticed it wasnt a star it
Naperville · IL, USA
Me and my wife were traveling north on rt 59 when I happened to look up I saw 15 to 20 red lights in the sky. Two formations looked lik
Christopher · IL, USA
Spotted a green light in the sky moving south to northwest, no trail very fast over my home to the horizon in a down direction as if to
Wheeling · IL, USA
2 militar aircraft chasing 2 ufos for 30 minutes
East Moline · IL, USA
What began as what appeared to be a stationary star started to fly and then faded from view.
Macomb · IL, USA
Strange light in the sky and an odd Jet. This is to fix the date of my origional report.
Bartlett · IL, USA
Red disk shaped UFO over bartlett Illinois
Saint Joseph · IL, USA
zig zag patterned light
Lake in the Hills · IL, USA
7 glowing red lights Lake in the Hills IL
Fox Lake · IL, USA
A bright orange orb appeared in the southern sky moving north. The orb stopped for a few seconds the started heading south at a high ra
Steger · IL, USA
Multiple luminescent reddish radiating lights in a line pattern that each changed course then faded into distance.
Tinley Park/Oak Forest · IL, USA
2 Glowing orbs of light went over my yard in Tinley Park, IL about a minute apart on July 3rd at 9 pm.
Barrington · IL, USA
Eight Bright Triangular Shaped Orange Lights Traveling Across Sky